Chapter 146 Star Reasoning Web Variety

Show The woman who came to visit was called He Chen, a planner of the Mango TV program department. She was currently preparing a web variety show with the theme of "stars playing reasoning".

"A reasoning-themed web variety show?" Meng Bai pondered, "Similar to ABC's "Who is the Real Murderer?"

"Who is the Real Murderer" is a "reasoning competition reality show" produced by the American ABC TV station in 2013, inviting more than a dozen guests from all walks of life to stay in a manor.

In each episode, one person will be "killed" by the murderer, and the survivors need to make inferences based on the clues at the scene, and finally compete for the grand prize of 250,000 US dollars.

It has a bit of the flavor of "Snowstorm Manor + No Survivors".

The reality shows of the old Americans like to organize this kind of program where a group of amateurs participate in the competition.

Because there is a huge amount of prize money as bait, these amateur guests often burst out with real human plots that are more exciting than stars or script arrangements.

I can only say that it is worthy of being an evil capitalist country, and how to make money through human nature is firmly grasped.

"Well, the subject matter is somewhat similar, but we are going for a different style." He Chen explained: "Last year, JTBC's variety show "Crime Scene" in South Korea, I wonder if you know about it, Mr. Meng?"

Meng Bai suddenly realized: "Oh, it's the Korean version, I've seen it."

Similar to "Who is the Real Murderer", "Crime Scene" is also a variety show with the theme of "crime reasoning", but it is much fresher than the American version.

The guests have been changed from amateurs to celebrities, and the competitive elements have been cancelled and replaced with situational role-playing. The nature is closer to a board game called "Murder Mystery" many years ago, and it is more suitable for reasoning programs for East Asian babies.

"Mr. Meng has seen it before, so it seems that I don't need to introduce it more. We at Mango TV are also planning to plan a similar online variety show, and we are currently negotiating the copyright with JTBC." He Chen said in surprise.

As the leader of the current domestic suspense-themed online dramas, Arclight Film and Television has projects one after another. But even so, the core figure of Arclight, "Mr. Meng", can still spare the energy to pay attention to this relatively unpopular variety show project that has just been released, which shows the efforts behind it.

Sure enough, no one succeeds casually.

He Chen introduced to Meng Bai that just as "Soul Ferry" opened the online drama market at the beginning of last year, "Strange Talk" in the second half of the year also opened up the popularity of online variety shows.

Mango TV is backed by Mango Satellite TV, and its main entertainment and film resources are basically in the traditional film and television field.

Faced with the gradually rising online drama market, they plan to open up the new track of online variety shows.

In the past two years, with the prevalence of the second-generation Korean wave, many domestic entertainment producers have gone to the next-door kimchi house to "purchase goods". It just so happens that in the past two years, Arc Light Film and Television has produced several hit online dramas in succession, bringing about a wave of "suspense themes".

So He Chen and his team wanted to seize the opportunity and chose this "reasoning theme" project.

"It's a good idea." Meng Bai nodded, and then asked: "However, what is the purpose of Producer He coming to us Arc Light? To be honest, we don't have any plans for online variety shows at present."

"That's right, in fact, I came this time to invite President Meng to be the chief screenwriter of our new program." He Chen said straightforwardly.

For other types of variety shows, in addition to the planning of the program itself, the content inside can also be directly copied from the original version.

For example, the popular "Running Man" last year, diving, acupressure board, tearing name tags, are all game links in the original version, just take it and change a group of guests.

But "reasoning variety shows" are different. The core of the program is to let the audience and the guest members reason the truth of the case together, and the script is the top priority.

Not to mention that directly copying will lose the meaning of the program, more importantly, many case methods and plots also have obvious national characteristics.

Instead of making a localized adaptation with great effort, it is better to rewrite the script directly.

"When I was at the seminar yesterday, I happened to hear you chatting with Mr. Liu of Leshi.com, saying that there were many unit stories that were deleted before, and I wanted to find a good way to make them visible. So I came to visit you today specifically to discuss script cooperation with you." He Chen said.

When it comes to "suspense and reasoning" theme scripts, Arc Light Film and Television may not be the highest quality in the entire domestic entertainment film and television industry, but it must be the most "online-sense" and the most attractive to online audiences.

"How many episodes do you plan to have for one season?" Meng Bai asked.

He Chen introduced: "Twelve episodes, one episode per week, just enough for one season to be broadcast."

"That's equivalent to having twelve scripts." Meng Bai frowned and said: "Four scripts a month, and this kind of script is different from a film and television script. I'm afraid it's too late for us to rely on Arclight alone."

"Don't worry about this, Mr. Meng. Our project team has a small team of screenwriters, and we can also collect scripts from outside." He Chen said: "We invite you mainly because we hope you can be the overall gatekeeper of the entire program content."

Meng Bai understood now. This is equivalent to the planning and screenwriting in a film and television project, responsible for the overall plot. The specific details will also be completed by the small screenwriters below.

"When do you plan to start preparing for this project?" Meng Bai asked.

"It will take some time, probably next month." He Chen smiled and said: "We have been waiting for the results of this seminar to be determined before we dare to start."

Meng Bai nodded: "We have several new projects to be busy with recently, and time is tight. So, when the time is convenient at the end of the month or the beginning of next month, I will contact you and we can talk about it in detail."

"No problem!" He Chen was overjoyed: "Then I will wait for news from President Meng."

After seeing He Chen off, Meng Bai returned to the office and thought quietly.

To be honest, he was quite interested in this project.

It's not just the program itself, but more importantly, he can take this opportunity to cooperate with Mango TV.

Although it is still just a new platform, with the huge entertainment resources of Mango TV, it will be no problem for Mango TV to sit firmly in the "second echelon" in the future.

And as He Chen said, some of the small stories he had written before that were difficult to integrate into formal projects can be fully utilized in the form of this variety show.

Perhaps, Arclight Film and Television can add another online variety show department and try online variety show projects. However,

in this case, it is not enough to have a chief screenwriter responsible for the plot, at least he must participate in the planning and production.

Of course, these can be discussed with the other party again. It just so happens that during this time, I can find someone to learn about Mango TV and He Chen.

What is more important now is the preparation of the two projects "Forensic Qin Ming" and "The Best of Us", as well as the remaining filming of "The Pretender".

Speaking of "The Disguiser", he and Hou Hongliang also talked about Wang Yuejun's situation during the seminar.

According to the doctor's advice, she will need at least one month to recover and get out of bed.

But this girl is quite strong. It has only been more than three weeks, and she insisted on going back to the set to shoot with injuries.

If it weren't for her annoying agent who always complained that the character's plot was cut too much, Meng Bai would have a good impression of her.

Just thinking about calling Li Xue to ask about the progress of the filming, Meng Bai's phone rang first.

He took a look and it happened to be Li Xue's.

"Otherwise, this person is not easy to talk about. I was just about to contact you, Director Li." Meng Bai joked in a light tone.

But Li Xue didn't seem to be in a happy mood, and said in a deep voice: "There is a situation, I want to tell you."

"From your tone, it doesn't seem to be a good thing." Meng Bai asked: "Isn't it that someone is injured again?"

MD, just say that it didn't rain on the day of the opening ceremony.

"That's not the case." Fortunately, Li Xue denied his guess.

"What else?" Meng Bai was puzzled.

Li Xue said in a tired tone: "It's still Chen Qian. He thinks that Xiao Wang's role has been cut too much in the plot and wants to add more scenes."

"Fuck, didn't I tell him at the beginning that we made changes to the plot because of the girl's physical condition. We want to arrange more in the script, and her body must be able to bear it."

"He knows that the action scene is not suitable, so he wants to add some to the literary scene." Li Xue said: "He changed some of the plot himself. I'll send it to you."

Meng Bai opened WeChat and clicked on the file sent by Li Xue.

After just a quick glance, he couldn't help but frowned tightly.

"Which idiot wrote this shit?" Meng Bai said: "If you show this kind of plot to a dog, the dog will shake its head."

"Who said it wasn't." Li Xue said: "But he is now using his status as a financier to pressure the crew to modify it according to their wishes."

"Let him throw his mess into a non-recyclable trash can." Meng Bai said without hesitation.

"Are you free now? If you can spare some time, come back." Li Xue said with a headache and a sad tone.

Meng Bai took a deep breath and calmed down.

Thinking about the things on hand, it seemed that none of them had to be done in the next one or two days, so he agreed: "Okay, then I'll deal with it here today and fly back tomorrow."

(End of this chapter)