Rebirth Begins with a Manga Adaptation

"Teacher Jing Yu." Cheng Lie walked into the room with a smile on his face.

"I'm sorry to disturb your rest so late. The reason why I came to visit suddenly now is because I finally finished the work in the stage, so I can't wait to come over and discuss with you about the shooting details of Qihun."

When Jing Yu heard the words, he immediately understood.

Jing Yu is a screenwriter who can be said to have only debuted for a year or two. He has just moved from Lanzhou to Shanghai, and he has no local network resources. Don't expect Jing Yu to recommend people, he will handle all these, so now I need to ask Jing Yu, the screenwriter, about the casting of each role, the shooting style of the series, music, director, and actor's requirements in detail.

Unlike Lan Province, in the Shanghai area, you can find many, many actors with good looks, strength, and popularity online.

Although it is scheduled to invest 35 million yuan in the drama Soul of Chess, in fact, after the broadcast, according to the audience's evaluation and ratings response, these things can be changed to high or low, naturally it is fine

Why did the TV station choose to shoot one episode and broadcast one episode? It is to prevent risks. If it feels wrong in the middle of the broadcast, it will immediately cut the show in half. The popularity of the TV station will also drop sharply if the series is unfinished for a long time.

"Well, in fact, I have only created the first few episodes of the script of this show, but generally speaking, in the first few episodes about casting actors, you need to find a few cute children."

Jing Yu also cheered up and immediately discussed with Cheng Lie.

"Child actor?"

"Of course a child star can, but it must be photogenic, the kind that makes people like it at a glance. The protagonist Jing Guang's plot at the beginning is very mischievous. To put it bluntly, he is self-willed and reckless. If the audience does not approve of his appearance, the primary school plot of this character Basically a nasty little ghost image."

"Yu Liang's casting is handsome, but it's not masculine handsome, but rather gentle, polite, and elegant. In fact, Yu Liang's casting is a bit more difficult."

"Oh, Zuo Wei, Zuo Wei made a reservation for me, so it's just me."

"Why do you want to participate in it? Because it's a work I like. In addition to receiving two salaries, I can also enjoy the fun of cosplaying my favorite characters."

"What is kosprey, ah, it's drag. I have a hobby of drag, especially like to play the characters I created, that's it."

Naturally, the discussion with Cheng Lie couldn't be concluded in one night. For the next three days, they will be on the TV station, at Jing Yu's house, and even during meals.

The two were basically together, exchanging specifics.

The director, executive director, assistant, theater director, photographer, and chief artist are gradually established as crew members.

Some of them were old employees of Yunteng TV Station, who were transferred directly, while others were talents hired from other film and television companies.

In this place of Magic City, as long as you have the funds in place, the production speed of the crew is very fast. After all, the soul of chess is not a film and television drama that is difficult to produce. big.

It can even be said that its shooting cost is very low.

No dangerous shots, no extravagant high-society scenes.

The whole show is either playing chess, or on the way to playing chess!

What matters is the casting of the actors.

In terms of persuasion, only Zuo Wei, which Jing Yu will participate in, is a little more difficult, and there will be some scenes involving the history of Da Zhou.

However, in the history of the Great Zhou Dynasty, there are also many periods similar to the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms and the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties in the history of Jingyu's previous life Huaguo.

Zuo Wei's identity is also easy to set up. After all, many people who were emperors in history, with the passage of time, are not even sure of the exact date of birth and death. There is no record of how many powerful officials died, let alone a chess player!

Even the best chess player in the world is sometimes not worthy of being recorded in history books.

The costumes customized according to Jing Yu's request were also rushed out quickly.

The one on the left in the original manga is dressed in hunting clothes in RB's costume, wearing a black hat and holding a five-bone bat fan, with an aristocratic atmosphere.

But in this world, Jing Yu will definitely change greatly, but the decoration will change according to local conditions, but the style will not change.

Of course there is no need to wear a hat, but the bun must be tied up, and the style of clothing must be white. If it is makeup, people with purple lip makeup will definitely not be able to accept it, but the style is still a bookish look.

The general style is confirmed, but the specific makeup is still being changed a little bit, but at least after the first version of the makeup style is finalized, Jing Yu himself is quite satisfied.

Then there's casting.

Looking at the whole work of the play Soul of Chess, there are hundreds of characters on the stage, but there are very few female characters in it.

Xiao Ming, the only childhood friend of Hikaru Kondo who has more roles in the show, do you think she is the heroine? In fact, she is a soy saucer, and deleting all her roles will have almost no impact on the show.

In this way, she is still the female character with the most roles in the whole work.

When it comes to the actor audition, it reflects the complexity of the film and television industry in Shanghai.

Monsters and ghosts emerge in endlessly, the phone calls of the leaders of various Yunteng TV stations, various airborne actors, and the hottest is the role competition between the young Jing Guang and the young Yu Liang.

A dozen well-known young boys in variety shows competed together, and Jing Yu somehow enjoyed a bunch of people he didn't know chatting and caring about him. Jing Yu didn't care so much about his father in his previous life.

Many people even directly hinted whether Jing Yu would accept money or not, and whether they could be sure that one or two roles would be eligible for them. If it weren't for the fact that there are no female roles in this drama, Jing Yu guessed that those women who wanted to participate in the show would have to be recruited. The actors harassed.

"Mr. Jingyu, I'm sorry, for the role of Gong Hiroshi (Tsutsui Kohiro), the Propaganda Department let us think more about this kid named Li Mu. He is the son of the brother of the Propaganda Department Minister. He has filmed six dramas before, and his acting skills are also good. , image and temperament are not bad." Cheng Lie apologized to Jing Yu again.

In many cases, the task of a film and television drama is not only to make money, but also has the potential function of flattering people.

Why did many novels in Jing Yu's previous life have their plots changed so that the original authors didn't even know them?

It's because it's based on the original book, except for the protagonist, the other characters in a drama don't have any sense of existence, and the supporting roles must be added out of thin air, so that those supporting characters can have the possibility of becoming popular!

Jing Yu's adherence to the plot is the bottom line, and he has strict requirements on the acting skills of the actors who play the main roles in the script, but there is no way for these various supporting roles. As long as they can pass the passing line, priority should be given to those related accounts .

Otherwise, after the production of Jingyu Qihun's work, you will have to ask other people in the stage to cooperate with many problems in the later stage.

If you don't give others face now, it will be the same for others in the future.

Many people you ask him to help you do one thing successfully, he does not have that ability, but you ask him to mess up one thing, they are definitely experts!

But fortunately, although many people have passed their information to Jing Yu through their connections, they are basically related accounts with two brushes.

Then it's the advertiser's choice.

Although Go is not as popular as football and basketball, there are still tens of millions of fans in Dazhou.

Knowing that Yunteng TV station wanted to shoot a Go drama, the Chess Academy and Go equipment manufacturers in Dazhou also poured in. For example, in which plots and links in the drama, the logos of these companies are slightly exposed, so that the protagonists can play in the game. When playing chess, using their brand of Go boards and chess pieces, in fact, it is only the investment of the soul of chess, which can pay off a lot in this link.

There is a gap between the advertisers attracted by major TV stations and Jinhui.

early december

The promotion of this play of Soul of Chess has been fully rolled out throughout the entire week!

The photos of Yu Liang, Jing Guang, and Jing Yu's handsome attire in ancient white clothes when they were children began to be promoted in various publicity sessions.

And it wasn't until this time that Jing Yu's past drama fans noticed the fact that Jing Yu had switched jobs on a large scale.

"I'll go, brothers, guess what I found? I saw Yunteng TV's initial advertisement for their new spring drama on the bus No. 117 in Shanghai today. It's Jing Yu. He actually ran away from the devil They're all here."

"Tch, I already knew, Mr. Jingyu's new play Go Soul, a play about playing Go that I didn't cooperate with Yu Youqing. It's boring, I don't want to watch it."

"Why is it boring! It's okay if you don't cooperate with Yu Youqing."

"I fell in love with his work from the very beginning when he played the male and female protagonist with Yu Youqing. Now you say that he is flying alone, I am really not used to it! And his works were all romance dramas before, but now he is playing Go, you know How boring is Go? I watched my grandpa play with his friends for two hours and couldn’t understand anything.”

"How do you know there is no love story in this drama! Isn't April using music elements as a medium to connect the two protagonists in series, maybe the soul of chess is too!"

"But I didn't see any female characters on the promotional posters. I only saw Mr. Jing Yu's makeup photo in ancient costume and white clothes. He is handsome enough, so I always feel weird."

"Anyway, I will definitely watch Mr. Jing Yu's play. Go is so interesting, how can you guys not understand it? Can't you learn it if you don't understand it?"

"I read a script just to relax, but I still want to learn Go? You think too highly of me!"

"However, if it's a Go romance drama, I'd still like to watch it. Just like when I watched April, even though I didn't understand classical music, I still enjoyed it. As long as the plot is good, everything can be solved."

"But appreciating music is one of the basic functions of one of the five senses! Go is really complicated. Anyway, watch it when the time comes, at least the first episode will definitely be watched. It can be regarded as supporting Teacher Jing Yu, but if it is really pure play There is a high probability that I will not be able to keep up with the drama of Go, Go is too hardcore. Forgive me for being stupid."

Among Jing Yu's film and television drama fan groups, information about the drama "Soul of Chess" spread quickly, while in the Dazhou Film and Television Drama Market at the same time,

The promotional work of the six major TV stations and various small and medium-sized TV stations is also in progress at the same time. The news of the upcoming broadcast of a Go sports drama like Soul of Chess has not caused too many waves among many works.

Basically, it is similar to the publicity situation before the broadcast of this drama that is currently broadcast on Yunteng TV Station on Sunday.

Major film critics and media organizations predict the final ratings of the drama Soul of Qi at this stage, which is basically among the top 30 TV dramas broadcast after the spring. If the plot has merits, it may reach the second About ten, if the plot is hardcore and boring, and the Go plot is too professional, maybe it will be outside the thirty.

Not only are the six majors not optimistic about the soul of chess, but the mainstream film and television drama media people's first sense is also not optimistic about this drama

However, Jing Yu and Cheng Lie will not be affected by these public opinions.

The selection of actors for the crew is far from over, but the filming of this drama is imminent.

On December 11th, the production team of the chess soul was basically completed, and the filming of this drama officially started at the Modu Film and Television Base

(There will be an update in the evening, but it should be after twelve o’clock. Everyone can go to bed early. I will also find a way to change my biological clock. I have no energy during the day and can’t sleep at night. My work and rest are all disordered. Gan.)