Chapter 205 Can we invite "Screenwriter Meng Bai"?
After living at Li Yitong's place for a week, Meng Bai finally realized how happy it is to have a girlfriend who can dance.
During the day, he worked on the script adaptation of "Ghost Blows Out the Light: The Mystical Ancient City".
At night, he and "Boss Li" studied the 27 postures of folk dance.
For example, the stepping song style, the willow-pulling style, the double-wing style, the sun-chasing style, etc.
How fun.
The only problem is that this community is in the west city, and he has to cross half of the northern Beijing city every day to go to Huguang.
Of course, he will not persuade this girl to move to the east.
Song Zhi's community is on the east fifth ring road. Next year, when Li Qin comes to northern Beijing, she will definitely choose Chaoyang, which is close to Rong Xinda. They are not far away.
Fortunately, the profession of actors is almost outside all year round, otherwise it is estimated that there will be fires all over the place in less than half a year.
"Where are you going today?"
In the early morning, Li Yitong lay on Meng Bai's chest and asked with her face up.
"Teacher He has a movie premiering today, and I will be collaborating with him on a show later, so I have to go and show my support." Meng Bai introduced himself and asked, "What about you? I see you haven't been working these days."
Li Yitong smiled sweetly, "Not really, Sister Qi has been urging me these past two days. In addition, Director Wu Bai said he has a drama over there and wants me to audition."
"Ah, is it the "The Bad Guys" he is going to shoot at the end of the year?"
"Yes, Director Wu said he thinks I am suitable for the role of the heroine and wants me to try it."
Meng Bai nodded. He knew about this project. Wu Bai had talked about it a long time ago. It was an anime adaptation of a suspenseful martial arts theme.
Wu Bai was naturally the director, and the screenwriter found the original screenwriter of the anime to adapt it. The producer and cooperation platform was naturally the animated version of Qiyi TV.
As for the producer, Meng Bai was just a name, and the main work was handed over to Liu Zhi.
This kid has been working as an executive producer with me for two years, so he should give him a small production to practice.
This is also the first main control project since the establishment of Arclight Films that Meng Bai did not participate in the production. It can be regarded as a training exercise.
After all, with the expansion of Arclight Films, more and more projects are being launched at the same time. It is unrealistic to rely on Meng Bai alone. We have to start cultivating reserve forces in advance.
As for the results, Meng Bai's requirement for the five hundred is to have a playback volume of 100 to 200 million, and to ensure that there is no loss.
Don't think that 100 to 200 million playbacks are nothing just because the playback volume of the top online dramas such as "Forensic Qin Ming" and "Grave Robbers' Chronicles" has reached 2 billion.
In fact, more than 80% of the projects in the entire online drama market can achieve a "breakthrough of 100 million" performance during the broadcast period.
The vast majority of dramas are hovering around 70 to 80 million, and then slowly accumulate over time.
After flirting with Li Yitong for another morning, Meng Bai went back to his apartment to take a shower and change into a formal suit, and then came to Wanda Cinema in Beijing North CBD with a fresh look.
This is the place where the premiere of "Gardenia Blossoms" was held.
"Teacher He, Mr. Meng from Arclight Films is here."
The assistant hurriedly ran into the backstage and said to He Jiong.
"Okay, I got it. Please ask him to rest in the guest area first."
He Jiong responded and said to Huang Lei who was chatting: "Teacher Huang, I have guests here, please go over first."
"Okay, you should be busy, just leave this to me." Huang Lei said.
For this movie, He Jiong found a creative team that is basically his acquaintances.
For example, Huang Lei is his long-time friend and is responsible for the production of this movie.
Looking at He Jiong's hurried departure, including Huang Lei, the leading actors and staff who were preparing backstage couldn't help but be curious, who is this "Mr. Meng"?
Judging from He Jiong's attitude, it seems to be quite important.
Of course, not everyone is unclear.
Song Zhi, who was wearing a white dress, was sitting aside and preparing to go on stage. Suddenly, she heard someone mention "Mr. Meng". She immediately reacted that it should be Meng Bai.
Pursing her lips to hold back the joy in her heart, she took out her mobile phone and sent a WeChat message.
[You are here? ]
After waiting for a long time, Meng Bai finally replied to her.
[Yes, I just came. ]
[What are you doing? 】
【I'm talking to your director about you. 】
【……】
Song Zhi put away his phone, unable to help but tap his toes in embarrassment.
Why do I suddenly feel like a teacher meeting a parent?
On the other side, Meng Bai looked at the row of ellipsis she sent and grinned.
In fact, he just saw He Jiong walking over from the work area passage on the side.
This girl is really, use your brain to think about how to reply to her WeChat if you are really chatting.
"Teacher He, congratulations!"
"Congratulations, President Meng, the new drama is a big hit!" He Jiong said enthusiastically.
Meng Bai paused, and then realized that the drama he was talking about should be "The Pretender".
Since the show was broadcast for a week, the ratings have been stable between 2.4 and 2.5, firmly occupying the throne of the first place in the prime time of major satellite TV stations during the same period.
At the same time, the popularity of this drama on the Internet is also high. There are countless secondary creations and editings about various plots and characters, and there are good playback volumes for just rubbing the popularity.
The excellent production, excellent plot, and idol drama male and female protagonists have attracted a large number of young audiences who didn't watch spy war dramas before.
Many film and television companies in the industry have begun to explore whether the "spy war drama" trend has returned.
"The Disguiser" has not finished airing yet, and there are already a large number of spy war projects waiting in line for approval.
Listening to He Jiong's congratulations, Meng Bai said politely: "It's mainly because of the production level of Noon Sunshine. I'm just a screenwriter."
"You can't say that. For a TV series, the most important thing is the script. I saw many viewers online saying that they were interested in watching it because they knew the screenwriter was 'Meng Bai'."
He Jiong's words were really not nonsense. The name "screenwriter Meng Bai" has gradually been known to many viewers in the past two years with the explosion of several online dramas of Arc Light.
Because Arc Light Film and Television also promoted "The Disguiser", many fans of Arc Light chose to watch the drama after knowing that the screenwriter was Meng Bai.
Some viewers checked the production team online after watching the drama.
After seeing Meng Bai's name, they left an exclamation of "It turned out to be the script of Meng Bai, no wonder."
There are even some film and television companies that want to take advantage of the "spy war drama" trend. They don't understand the online drama market and ask around to invite "Teacher Meng Bai" to write a new script.
When this news came to Meng Bai, he was also made to laugh and cry.
The script of "The Disguiser" was originally co-produced with Noon Sunshine, which was a coincidence.
Now that Arclight Films is on the right track and he has his own production team, it is basically impossible for him to hand over the script to other companies in the future.
Meng Bai is still happy about the popularity of "The Disguiser", which means that Arclight's share of the 10 million yuan investment is stable.
In fact, Noon Sunshine has already received 60% of the profits.
The rest will have to wait until the TV station returns the money after the broadcast.
The money will be received by the end of the year, and with the share of "Forensic Qin Ming" from Leshi.com, Arclight's account will immediately be comfortable and it can continue with new projects next year.
"By the way, do you have any suggestions on the selection of members for "Who's the Detective?" He Jiong asked about the show again.
Meng Bai said: "I actually talked to He Chen before. It would be best if the members could have an assessment before deciding on the final list."
"Assessment?"
"It doesn't have to be complicated. Just make a simplified version of the program scene and let the invited guests do some simple investigation, reasoning and narration."
Programs like "Celebrity Detective" are different from other variety shows. The requirements for fixed members are still quite high.
The requirements here are not about how smart they are. In fact, it is difficult to find a few particularly smart ones among the stars.
This program has many elements, reasoning, logic, acting, narration, emotion, comedy, program effects...
As long as one of these elements is outstanding, it is enough.
So Meng Bai suggested that He Chen first select a "big list" with a relatively large number of people, and then invite them one by one to do an "assessment test".
The program team will classify and score each person based on the results of the assessment test.
Later, based on these data, the most suitable candidates will be selected as fixed members of the program.
There is no need to waste the rest of the good performers. They can be invited as flying guests later.
"I have contacted Mr. Sa before." He Jiong said, "If we only appear on the video platform, CCTV has not yet imposed any restrictions, so there should be no problem."
"That's great." Meng Bai said with a smile.
In fact, it doesn't matter who the other program members are. There are only two core people - He Jiong and Sa Bening.
I don't know what the effect will be when these two top hosts in the domestic hosting industry collide with each other.
(End of this chapter)
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