Chapter 812: Eye-catching!
"Okay! This one's passed!"
At the Shanghai Film Studio, Lin Fan stood up from behind the monitor and smiled broadly at everyone in the crew: "I declare that we have finished filming this drama!"
“Wow!”
“It’s finally finished!”
"That's great, we've finally finished filming. It's been a long time since I've filmed so many episodes of a TV series!"
“Although there are many episodes, the plot is not boring.”
"That's right. Even though our show has 80 episodes, every episode is full of sincerity. It's completely different from those 45-minute episodes in the market, where there are five minutes of synopsis, five minutes of replay, and a five-minute trailer at the end, and the remaining 30 minutes of plot is filled with ten minutes of water. It's completely different!"
"Okay, okay, you're right. Now I only care about where to have the wrap-up banquet!"
The staff members were talking about it, and the leading cast also gathered around Lin Fan, asking about when the play would be released, how they would perform in the play, whether they would have the opportunity to work with Lin Fan again in the future... and so on.
In short, I just want to build a good relationship with Lin Fan and continue to participate in the next project.
"Brother Fan, how have I performed recently? Have I not embarrassed you, Brother Fan?"
"Director Lin, you have worked so hard. I must toast to Director Lin at the wrap party tonight!"
"Director Lin, when will our drama be released? I will definitely clear my schedule in advance and attend every promotional event. I will definitely not miss it!"
Lin Fan smiled and handled it with ease: "Everyone's performance is very good. I must have a drink with everyone at the wrap-up party tonight. As for the schedule and publicity, if there is no special reason, just follow what is written in the contract."
After dealing with everyone, I still have to give everyone a reassurance: "Don't worry, I am very confident in this play!"
Whether they believed it or not, everyone had to give it some face: "Now that Director Lin said so, we feel relieved!"
"That's right, how could the script written by Brother Fan himself be bad!"
"We are just waiting for you, Director Lin, to lead us to victory!"
Seeing that Lin Fan had already calmed everyone down, Yang Hongxia came up to help Lin Fan out: "Everyone take a break first. I have booked a wrap-up banquet at the Magic City Hotel. All the teachers have worked hard during this period. You must give us a chance to express your gratitude. See you at 7pm!"
Yang Hongxia sent the other actors away, and Lin Fan finally had the opportunity to talk to Li Xiaodong alone: "How is it, your first wrap, how do you feel?"
Li Xiaodong also wanted to tell Lin Fan about this! "Brother Fan, I feel like something is wrong with me!"
"Huh?" Lin Fan was confused. "What's wrong with you?"
Lai Siu-tung said seriously: "I feel like I'm too deep into the role and can't get out!"
With a "slap", Lin Fan slapped Li Xiaodong on the back of the head, expressionless: "You are right, this is a disease, a beating will make it better."
"Hiss!" After being beaten for no reason, Li Xiaodong didn't dare to be naughty anymore and honestly admitted: "I am still very happy about the completion, but after a moment of happiness, I always feel empty inside and I am reluctant to leave."
But I don't know whether I am reluctant to leave the drama, or the character I played in the drama, or I am simply worried about the outcome of the drama's release... I really can't tell, anyway, I just feel very uncomfortable.
Lin Fan looked at Li Xiaodong in surprise: "I didn't expect that you are such a thoughtful person!"
Being so emotional is totally different from Li Xiaodong's previous performance. Could this guy have been betrayed by someone?
Li Xiaodong immediately became excited and shook his head pretending to be melancholy: "Alas, I didn't expect that I hid it so deeply, but you, Brother Fan, still found it."
Lin Fan said ruthlessly: "It's an eyesore!"
Lai Siu-tung, KO!
Liang Wen couldn't stand it anymore. These two guys were so old yet they still loved to act funny!
"Director Lin, Xiaodong, are you free? Before the wrap party starts, why don't we go watch the newly edited promotional video?"
The promotion cycle of a TV series is very long. It can be said that we can start preparing for publicity work from the moment the project is launched.
And during the entire filming process, some inside stories, tidbits, small interactions between actors, etc. would be "exposed" to the outside world from time to time in order to arouse the interest of the audience, keep them paying attention to the progress of the show, and increase the audience's expectations.
After several months of continuous promotion, when the TV series is officially released, the popularity, discussion and attention on the Internet will not be low, ensuring that there will be sufficient audiences and ratings as soon as it is broadcast.
Similarly, the disadvantages of this kind of propaganda are also obvious.
The better you do in publicity, the higher the audience's expectations will be. Once the TV series is officially released, the audience will find that the actual quality of the work is very different from what is advertised, and the gap is bigger than their expectations. Then the reputation of the work will decline rapidly, and the ratings will plummet to the point where they cannot be saved even if you try to save the movie!
How to balance the relationship between the promotional effect and the actual quality of a TV series and shorten the gap between the seller's show and the buyer's show has always been the culprit that makes the friends in the publicity department bald.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
However, Lin Fan did not adopt such a promotional model for this comedy.
Instead, from the moment the project was launched, strict guard was put in place and no behind-the-scenes footage or leaks were allowed to be taken out of the set. Even the crew next door, who had filmed several scenes together, could only hear laughter and various NGs from this side, but still didn't know the specific content of the filming.
Even fans of Lai Siu-tung only knew that he had recently taken on a drama and was currently filming it. The fan club applied for a visit to the crew several times but was unsuccessful.
If it weren't for the fact that during the release of "A Little Thing Called First Love", Li Xiaodong occasionally helped to promote the performances and showed up, fans would have thought that Li Xiaodong had lost contact! At the same time, many fans protested that Lin Fan gave the male lead of the movie to Lu Bingyang, but did not take care of Li Xiaodong who had already signed to the Earthling Studio.
Of course, Lu Bingyang’s fans were not to be outdone, and they responded to Donggua’s fans, throwing harsh words like “Your Donggua wants to make a movie with such terrible acting skills” and “Go back and hone your acting skills before you speak again”.
It almost came to a point where the fans of the two groups were engaged in a public war of words.
Finally, it was Lin Fan who posted a photo on his Weibo account of the three of them squatting at a roadside stall eating barbecue after visiting the crew, which appeased the fans of both groups.
Donggua fans: Ahhh! Brother Fan dotes on our Dongdong so much! Our Dongdong is Brother Fan’s most beloved brother!
Bing fans: Nonsense! Our Lu is Fan's childhood sweetheart!
Xia Yan: I always feel like you guys are imagining things that are very offensive to me!
Well! Anyway, it also helped promote the comedy that Lai Siu-tung was currently filming. This was also the first time that news about this drama was made public.
Of course, what followed was that fans frantically attacked Lin Fan’s account: [Born to be Entertainment Reporter: Fan Fan’s new play! It’s a TV series, with many episodes that can be watched for a long time! I want to watch it! ]
[Auntie is uninhibited: Let’s not beat around the bush, just tell us directly, when will this drama be released? ]
[Bare-handed Durian: Fanfan, have you finally remembered to make a TV series? I thought you were no longer interested in TV series after "The Legend of White Snake"! Nothing more to say, just release it soon! I have watched your three movies, two variety shows and one TV series almost ten times! If you don't release a new TV series, I'm going crazy! ]
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