31 Stary
In fact, some of these emails have been accumulating in her mailbox for a while. From the first episode, the fan groups of some trainees took the initiative to form a fan club, and then after the second and third episodes, the fan clubs of all trainees, super chats, data groups, and publicity groups were all formed, and the communication with the company became more frequent.
The audience for the fifth public performance has already been decided, and the fan club is afraid that if they don't hurry up, they will miss out on the last support for the debut battle. The email they sent not only asked about the time and place for support, but also thoughtfully provided some fan names and support colors for the trainees to choose from, and also tactfully expressed their dissatisfaction with Yuanxin for not taking the initiative to contact them and provide the above information.
Yuan Xiao: …
She herself is also an old fan, so of course she understands this configuration. It's not that Yuan Xiao didn't take care of it. The entire concept, positioning, and even all the settings and configuration of the first album of the future new group have actually been discussed countless times. The complete plan is now lying in her computer, side by side with the emails.
She is not against fan names being decided jointly by fans and trainees, but she thinks it is fair that group fans should also receive the same treatment.
Yuan Xiao fiddled with the mouse unconsciously, the cursor moving back and forth across the folder. She hadn't really figured out when would be the best time to announce the new group plan.
I always feel that there is still an opportunity missing.
She banged her head on the table and rolled around in confusion.
There were two gentle knocks on the door, and Yuan Xiao managed to stand up: "Come in."
Gu Yuchen pushed open the door carrying a mobile hard drive. As soon as he entered, he saw the strange expression on Yuan Xiao's face that had not yet completely faded away. He couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong with you?"
"Just right, let me ask you something." Yuan Xiao sighed, "When do you think it would be best for me to announce the number of members in the group?"
Gu Yuchen answered without hesitation: "Of course the sooner the better."
According to the schedule of the entire program, the performance stage will be broadcast once a week. Now it has reached the second public performance, and the fifth public performance will be recorded in two weeks. In addition, there will be a special event in the middle. According to Yuan Xiao's recording plan, the recording process will be merged with the broadcast at the end. The debut battle will be broadcast live throughout the whole process, which will give a shock to the domestic entertainment here.
Gu Yuchen's meaning was very clear. If this plan was delayed until before the live broadcast, then the dear audience friends who had already developed deep feelings for the trainees during the broadcast of the program and had already made their own judgment on the debut positions might flood Yuan Xiao's social media platforms.
After working together for this period of time, in his mind, Yuan Xiao is more like an idealist than a qualified entertainment company boss.
It would be too unfair if such a person were to be shrouded in malice again.
"But our show is called 'Idol·Unnamed'." Yuan Xiao was also troubled by this point, "Announcement of the group name and concept so early would be inconsistent with the program's high sense of participation and companionship."
"Then you can hold a vote, put in the names you gave and the estimated number of people, and then falsify the data." Gu Yuchen thought about it, and then gave her a dirty trick.
Yuan Xiao looked at him with obvious disdain, “You people in the entertainment industry have such dirty hearts.”
Of course, this was a joke. Data falsification should not be a bad precedent. Once it happens, it will happen again. After the joke, Gu Yuchen still gave her serious advice:
“In fact, as long as you don’t edit the group name into the main film, the contestants who follow the Weibo account should know that the recording is almost over, and the audience who only pay attention to the program itself will still see the content on the day of the live broadcast.”
Teacher Gu spread his hands to Yuan Xiao with the unique coolness of a veteran in the entertainment industry: "So there is no need to worry too much. Not everything has an optimal solution."
"..."Okay, that makes sense. Yuan Xiao accepted the advice expressionlessly and decided not to fight for the opportunity anymore. "Do you have anything else to say? If not, I need to go and tell the publicity department to start spending money."
"Yes." Gu Yuchen picked up the hard drive he brought over, "Don't spend the money in a hurry. I got a burst of inspiration last night and wrote a new song demo. Do you want to listen to it?"
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Once Yuan Xiao made the decision, he acted quickly and announced the final group concept in the form of a PV short video on the program's official Weibo the next day.
This video, which is less than a minute long but looks very expensive, starts with 25 meteors streaking across the sky, then ends with only five stars remaining in the night sky, with beautiful tails, shining brightly, and finally the trails of the stars condense into beautiful cursive English letters - Stary.
The last scene of the PV freezes on five silhouettes under the starry sky. It is simple and clear. The final debut will be a five-member group, one-fifth of the twenty-five.
It’s an easy concept to understand. The five members of the band correspond to five stars. Every album and every song is a trace they leave in the universe until they converge into stars.
In view of the difficulty of spreading pure English names in the domestic entertainment industry, Yuanxin also provided the abbreviation "Sida Rui", the flower name "Shuo Tuan", which means twinkling stars, and the fan name "Satellights" in the announcement.
In keeping with the concept of the group, the group's support color is starry sky blue. Today, when talent shows are popular, there is no support color that can be different from the support colors of all the same type of stars.
Yuan Xiao didn't want her group's cheering color and future cheering light boards to all be rainbow colors, so she simply decided on starry blue. Each trainee, as well as the five people who will soon debut as a group, will have a blue prefix and their three-digit birthdays as the color number.
From January to December, it is just light blue to dark blue.
It has to be said that Yuan Xiao has fully understood the domestic entertainment support system. The current light boards are unable to distinguish subtle color differences while ensuring brightness. This move has cut off the possibility of future light board wars from the source.
Don't underestimate it. Many disputes sometimes start with who occupies whose space or whose light board is brighter than whose. They spread from offline to online, and finally the square is reduced to chaos, with both sides suffering and only the loser.
She is not afraid of her fans discovering her thoughts. She made the colors of her clothes according to her birthday. Each of the 25 girls has a different color, and no one can find fault with them.
After the support color is decided, the third batch of peripheral products can be put online in the form of support sticks. Once fans purchase them and receive them, they can take them to watch the debut battle stage.
Compared with the previously launched Xiaoka dolls, the cheering stick is not a new thing. As an old entertainment company, many singers under Yuanxin will also design the concert's cheers with Yuanxin during their concert tours, and the manufacturer is also very experienced.
The stick body is made of lightweight plastic with a gradient blue color, and the top is designed to be a planet with a star ring. Yuan Xiao specially selected a frosted translucent surface with a starry sky coating. When the light is on, it is a gentle blue like water waves. There is also a small rotatable silver satellite on the star ring, representing the fans. Together with a rechargeable battery with a battery life of up to six hours, and a central control receiving device, the whole set is priced at 68, which is the conscience of conscience.
In fact, the cost is higher only in the initial design and proofing. Once the assembly line is started, the cost will be infinitely compressed. The more you do, the less it costs. Yuan Xiao thought that as long as the group is still operating, the cheering sticks can be sold continuously, so he let the factory run at full capacity. There will be profit anyway, it's just a matter of how much.
This quarter's peripheral income has made Yuan Xin's financial statements look much better. Compared with the pure expenditure in the previous quarter, the money-making ability of the idol industry has begun to emerge. At least Yuan Xiao doesn't have to calculate every penny every day to spend the additional investment.
As for the names of the fans, let the trainees choose them themselves.
This is the bond between them and the people who love them, and they always have to maintain it with their own efforts. This is generally the case with human emotions, and it is not limited to stars and fans.
The comment section was not yet concerned with trivial matters such as the support colors, and was filled with wailing. No matter who the final debut candidates had been discussed among fans before, at this moment everyone only had one thing in common: five people were too few!
Until now, it’s still unclear who Yuan Xiao particularly admires. Even if she’s a fan of a top-notch trainee, she wouldn’t dare to say that she will definitely be able to debut. Of course, the more opportunities the better.
Yuan Xiao could only express regret about this. No matter how many people she decides on, fans will always feel that it is not enough, and there is nothing she can do about it.
Even the trainees who heard the news felt a sudden increase in pressure. Xiao Yu Letian was about to collapse, because he found that no matter how he counted, even if his name was not included, the list of names in his mind would far exceed five.
It’s not that Yuan Xiao doesn’t want to, but after her evaluation, considering the current domestic entertainment environment and Yuanxin’s team, a five-member group is the most suitable.
The three-member group is too small to be defined as an idol group. Perhaps it would be more appropriate to call it a group. Whether it is the lyrics or the stage movements, only the simplest changes can be made, and the stage design is like playing house.
The seven-member group has too many members. Firstly, the company cannot take care of them all in terms of internal marketing and training. Secondly, it is difficult for passers-by to remember the faces of seven people at a glance, even though the Yuanxin trainees are distinctive enough in appearance.
This is not just a problem of facial capabilities, but the screen is limited in size. The more people there are in the group, the blurrier they appear on the screen, and the less shot space they get evenly distributed. This is an objective fact.
As for larger groups with more members, she didn't even consider it. Yuan Xiao knew clearly that large groups would only make the popularity and strength of the members uneven, which was totally inconsistent with her original intention of forming the best boy band.
Moreover, there are too many people, which is not friendly to the wallets of group fans. Once they are dragged into the vicious circle of self-justification, the group fans will be close to collapse.
Yuan Xiao does not expect all fans of a group to be group fans. As long as group fans, multiple fans, and sweet fans work together to reduce the living space of toxic fans to the lowest level, it will be a very healthy fan circle environment.
After all, as long as the company doesn't do anything weird, everyone will still chase stars with passion.
Now they just have to wait for the debut battle to be over, and the five people selected into Stary can officially start the next stage of training and the recording of their first album.
Yuan Xiao currently has only one public debut standard, which is to select the best of the best, which requires both good looks and strong abilities, versatility and irreplaceability. Yes, she wants all of them, forcing the trainees to train hard almost every day.
There are only two final performances left. If they fail to make their debut successfully, the flowers, applause and cheers will fade away again, and they will return to the practice room, day after day with no end in sight.
Problems will naturally arise under such great pressure, so the fourth episode before the third performance, which will be aired next week, will begin with Jiang Tong injured and in a wheelchair.
【Author’s words】
It’s a five-member group. You can guess the final lineup (PS: The trainees who didn’t make it to the group may debut in other forms)
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