Chapter 461 Sisters Riding the Wind and Waves

"Hey, isn't this our President Meng? Welcome to the program group to inspect the work."

Looking at Meng Bai who had just entered the room, Chen Zhixi smiled and teased.

"The president of the wool ball, those people are just praising for fun, Sister Xi, don't join in the fun." Meng Bai waved her hand.

The so-called "President Meng" naturally refers to the establishment of the "Internet Drama Association" that many people have been discussing recently. Originally, it was just a joke from some people in the industry, but I didn't expect it to spread and become a sensation. After

talking about it so much, many people really believed that it happened, and even sent WeChat to Meng Bai to congratulate him.

"Hey, it's not a bad thing. Doesn't this also show that our President Meng is highly respected in everyone's hearts?" Chen Zhixi said with a smile.

"No, I still hope to be closer to the masses."

Meng Bai sighed: "It's not easy to promote online dramas to the official mainstream awards, just hoping that it can be the same as TV dramas. There is already a TV drama industry association in the industry, and these people have to take online dramas out separately, which is purely the opposite."

As early as 2013, the film and television industry established the TV Drama Production Industry Association, which is under the supervision of radio and television. It is an industry group for self-discipline, rights protection, communication, cooperation, and promotion of industrial development for TV drama production institutions across the country.

The current organizational structure of the association is the second term, and the president is You Xiaogang, a director who has directed many TV dramas such as "The Secret History of Xiaozhuang".

Meng Bai also joined the association two years ago. Like Sun Zhonghuai, Guo Jingyu, and Cao Huayi, the heads of film and television platforms or production companies, he is a vice president.

So strictly speaking, there is nothing wrong with calling him "President Meng".

"So what you said a while ago, that you were doing something big, was referring to this." Chen Zhixi said: "But it is indeed quite big. By the way, since the award organizers have opened this loophole this year, they should at least give Arc Light an award to show their appreciation."

"Of course, otherwise why would we spend so much energy on this. Even if there is no credit, there is hard work. Besides, this is the first year, and it would not sound good if we don't give it an award."

According to the registration period specified by the three major awards, Arc Light's seven or eight web dramas produced and broadcast from last year to this year, including "The Secret Corner", "The Undocumented Crime" and "Twinkle, Twinkle, Twinkle Star", can all be registered.

However, registration is registration, and there should not be many nominations.

The most promising one is "The Secret Corner", which was a super hit in the summer of last year, and the actors are all powerful. In addition to the sensitive subject matter, from the quality of the series to the level of performance, it is also one of the best among the star-rated dramas.

So if the three major awards want to find a web drama as a benchmark, it can be said that this drama is the best choice - after all, it can't be given to "The Untamed".

It's a pity that "The Silent Truth" will not be broadcast until next month, which exceeds the registration period, otherwise this drama will also have great hope.

"Congratulations will be given after the awards are announced. I won't open the champagne for you in advance." Chen Zhixi glanced at the time, "The recording should start at this time, let's go and take a look."

Today is the first recording of "Sisters Riding the Wind and Waves". As a planning project that Heng Video values ​​most this year, the two top creators came together to take charge.

"Mr. Meng, Mr. Chen, you are here."

As soon as I entered the backstage of the director team, a middle-aged woman with short hair came to greet me.

This woman is Du Yan, the chief director of the program "Sisters Riding the Wind and Waves", the founder of Seven Dimensional Power, and one of the production team of the previous "Produce 101".

Du Yan first worked at Mango TV and participated in the popular "I Am a Singer". After that, she left Mango TV and produced "Produce 101" with her partner Sun Li.

After the show ended, Sun Li accepted Tencent's investment to establish Haofeng Qingyun, and continued to be in charge of the "Creation" series, including "Creation Camp 2020" which just started airing last month. Du Yan remained independent and was invited to be in charge of "Sister Riding the Wind and Waves".

Not only these two programs, but also the production team of the "Youth With You" series, are also the producers who came out of Mango TV before. In essence, the three talent shows are actually from the same school.

But this is normal. As the first satellite TV station in the domestic entertainment industry to start developing the entertainment industry, Mango TV's nickname of "Variety Hunan Army" is not for nothing.

In the arena of the domestic entertainment variety show market, if CCTV is "Shaolin Wudang", then the Mango system is the "Five Mountains Sword School"-it is powerful, has a large number of people, and likes to "fight within the same room."

After saying hello, Chen Zhixi looked at the busy staff in the room and the multi-camera screens on one wall: "Have they started to enter?"

"Yes, there are already 17 contestants on stage."

As a reality show featuring "women over 30", the biggest attraction is not only the singing and dancing of the "sisters", but also the "intrigues" between each other off the stage.

Unlike those youthful and energetic trainees, most of these "sisters" have debuted for many years, with varying popularity and tempers.

Some of them are big stars, such as Ning Jing, who doesn't care about anyone, even the program team. There are also some who are not very popular, but have a long history of debut.

More importantly, compared to those young people, the "sisters" know better what they want to get from the show, are more willing to lose face, and have more ways to do things, which makes the show more interesting.

Although the show has not yet started, many netizens have begun to predict what may happen between the contestants. According to their description, the scene off the stage of this show is no less than "The Legend of Zhen Huan".

The program team naturally knew what everyone wanted to see, so the first episode of the recording did not start directly after everyone arrived, but arrived one by one and started recording on the road.

The director team was not far from the recording site, separated by a few walls. Through the camera, we can see that the "sisters" who have arrived are looking for someone to chat with.

Meng Bai looked at the backstage screen with interest. These "sisters" seemed to be chatting casually in a disorderly manner, but in fact, if you observe carefully, you can find that the whole scene is basically centered around a few centers.

The first one is Ning Jing. As the "sister" with the biggest status in this season's program, almost everyone wants to chat with her so as to get on the camera.

Then the other one is Zhang Meng. As the boss lady of Yaoke Film and Television, many netizens laughed and said when they saw her name, "others are here for the talent show, and she is here for the casting."

With many film and television resources in hand, many people also want to get close to her. If you can really get along well in the show, even if your popularity doesn't increase much in the end, it will be worth it to come here.

Huang Shengyi is somewhat similar to Zhang Meng. As a shareholder of Juli, she is also a member of the capital. However, her style is just the opposite. She stayed aside and chatted with Zhang Yuqi, and seemed to look down on the other "colleagues".

There are also Shen Mengchen who greeted people everywhere in the audience, and Yi Nengjing who sat in the middle as a "big sister".

Meng Bai also saw Jin Chen. As the youngest and least experienced contestant in the entire program, this girl sat on the side of the front row. Most of the people around her were in a similar situation, all of them were small transparent people with average popularity.

Looking at the different performances of the people on the scene, he subconsciously smiled.

This feeling of standing behind the camera and observing everyone is the reason why he has always liked to be behind the scenes.

"Isn't this rhythm a bit slow?" Chen Zhixi asked on the side: "It takes more than an hour to enter the venue alone, and there are 30 individual stages later. Can it be recorded in one day today?"

"We can record longer in the evening. Anyway, everyone will live in the villa area next, and it is convenient not to run around." Du Yan said.

Like the other two girl group auditions, according to the program team's plan, these "30+" sisters also need to live in the arranged collective dormitory.

It's called a dormitory, but it's actually a row of lakeside villas next to it. Each house has four people, all single rooms, and the conditions are not bad.

Of course, unlike those trainees who haven't debuted, these "sisters" have their own schedules in addition to recording the program, so the program team can't force everyone to live here.

For most sisters, at most they live here two days before and after each recording.

As Chen Zhixi asked, the recording rhythm of the first episode was very slow. From noon until one o'clock in the morning, 30 individual stages were finally recorded.

It can be clearly seen from the expressions of the sisters on the scene that almost all of them were very sleepy. But this is not over yet, because later they will be ranked according to the scores of each person's first stage, and then the stage song for the first performance will be selected, followed by personal interviews and team interviews.

This whole set of processes was not completed until two or three o'clock in the morning.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Meng, we didn't expect the recording to take so long, and you have to stay up until now."

Backstage of the director's team, Du Yan wiped the cold sweat from her forehead and looked at Meng Bai.

Chen Zhixi had left as early as the end of the first stage. She thought Meng Bai would follow, but she didn't expect him to stay with the entire program team until the end.

"It's okay, just staying up all night, I'm used to it when I was filming on the crew."

Meng Bai stood up and stretched his body, saying nonchalantly.

Staying up all night is nothing for him, who came from the crew. In the early years of filming "Soul Ferry" and "Psychological Crime", in order to grab the time on the set, he worked for more than 30 hours in a row before going to bed.

Although he doesn't need to work so hard in the past two years as his status has increased, after all, he has a foundation, and it's okay to stay up occasionally.

"But having said that, when you record again later, you have to pay attention to controlling the length and rhythm of the program. The average age of the contestants in our program is old, and their energy and recovery are slow. Singing and dancing are physical activities. If it takes too long, I'm afraid they won't be able to make it to the last episode, and that would be a lot of fun."

"Don't worry, Mr. Meng, we will control the time later." Du Yan hurriedly said, "You should go back and have a rest. You can take a look after we have produced the opening episode."

Meng Bai was not pretentious. He greeted them and got up to leave.

It must be said that except for the long recording time, the overall effect of this first episode is still good. It can be seen that each "sister" has practiced specially before coming.

Especially professional contestants like Jin Chen, Meng Jia, A Duo, etc., their stage performances are quite good.

After watching all the stages, Meng Bai felt more confident. As for whether the audience will recognize it or not, it depends on the actual broadcast effect.

(End of this chapter)