A year later, when Director Fu and the producer set foot in Baoren Port Pier again, they almost didn't recognize the place.
First of all, the environment here has obviously improved. There are no cars parked randomly, and the main road seems very wide and clean. Occasionally, tourist buses pass by, while taxis and online ride-hailing cars line up to enter the parking lot, and soon they come out with tourists and drive away.
Secondly, one hundred meters west of the pier parking lot is the east gate of the Cultural and Creative Industrial Park. From here on, motor vehicles are prohibited from entering. Only the tourist train of Xingzhou Island and bicycles can drive here.
The smooth greenway is lined with tall palm trees and coconut trees. Every 500 meters there is a place similar to a bus stop, where the tourist train picks up and drops off passengers. Tourists can get off here and then cross the windbreak to play at the beach.
But if you want to play some water entertainment, you can only go two stops further. From this stop, it is the main entrance of the Xingzhou Island Cultural and Creative Industrial Park. There are newly built shops on both sides of the greenway. The overall style of the buildings is relatively consistent, but the interior decoration is different.
Although the shops in this cultural and creative industrial park have only been open for a short time, the customer flow is more than that of the commercial streets in the city center during weekdays. Tourists from all over the world come and go here. Some of them have not been to Xingzhou Island yet, and some have just come out of Xingzhou Island and decided to rest for another day before leaving. This has become the best place for them to have fun.
Specialties? Buy!
Cultural and creative products? Buy!
Summer is coming soon. Beach-style clothes, sun hats, and sunglasses? Buy!
Want to play sailing, windsurfing, and surfing? There are special stores here, buy equipment!
Seafood produced in Xingzhou Island? Eat!
Hmm? Wedding travel photography base, couples, couples, families, sisters, you can take any photos you want? Take!
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It is worth mentioning that the blacklist system also applies here. However, after being blacklisted by Xingzhou Island, in addition to being unable to land on the island, places such as cultural exhibition areas and open-air theaters that require real-name reservations and ticket purchases will also refuse entry to the blacklist. Only places such as beaches and commercial streets that do not require reservations are allowed to play and consume.
Therefore, even in open areas, littering and environmental damage are relatively rare.
After visiting the office area, Director Fu and the producer looked at each other. After the two sides exchanged glances, they unanimously decided that in addition to the attractions on the island, the second part of "The Mermaid Love Song" must also be filmed here!
Yes, this time they came here to discuss filming matters.
After a year of preparation, the producer was confirmed, the funds were in place, and the leading actors were almost found. The only thing left was the venue and other issues to deal with.
Oh, by the way, I came to talk to "Miss Yu" about participating in the performance.
They arranged to meet with "Miss Yu" in the evening, and now they came to meet Li Yaolin. Director Fu felt very complicated when he saw the island owner. He remembered that the last time he called the island owner, he wanted to invite the keeper of the reserve to play the mermaid queen's teenage years. Unexpectedly, the island owner's video made him realize that the "keeper" was the island owner himself. No wonder the island owner rejected him on his behalf at the time.
"Island owner, are you really not going to consider acting? The salary can be negotiated." Director Fu said.
The producer nudged him with his elbow, suggesting that he should not be silly. The island owner owns such a big brand as "Xingzhou Island", and owns an island, an industrial park and a coastal scenic spot to be developed. She is worth billions. Why would she waste her time for such a small salary?
Director Fu also responded. He said: "Sorry, I just think the scene where the island owner can communicate with marine life is too shocking. How did she do it?"
Li Yaolin smiled slightly and said without thinking: "Maybe it's because... I am the island owner!"
Director Fu & Producer: "..."
What kind of answer is this.
But they didn't expect the island owner to tell the secret, otherwise how could it match her mysterious origin? !
Li Yaolin didn't say much. Director Fu's crew had applied to the relevant departments and management stations in advance for the locations they wanted to film, and they also hoped to shoot some marine life. They had agreed, and the only thing left was Xingzhou Island.
Li Yaolin had already read the relevant plan, and this time they came to give further explanations and finalize more details.
"The leading actress..." Li Yaolin glanced at the list of leading actors and found that the leading actress looked familiar.
"After all, the mermaid queen in the first part was just a passing scene, so we didn't arrange any well-known actors. For the second part, everyone wanted to choose an actress who is a little famous, popular with the audience, and has a good reputation and image, so they decided on Song Ruqing." The producer said, "She is a friend of the island owner, right?"
The last sentence revealed their intentions.
In fact, the producers chose Song Ruqing as the female lead after considering this relationship. They thought that because of Song Ruqing's relationship with the island owner, the island owner would give the crew more convenience for her sake.
Li Yaolin: "..."
Well, she remembered.
But it has been a year since they played table tennis, and the last time she spoke for Song Ruqing was eight months ago. After that, the two sides had no intersection, and she was so busy that she almost forgot about it.
It doesn't matter to her who the investors and the crew choose, as long as the other party is not on the blacklist of Xingzhou Island.
She didn't want to embarrass others by denying it directly, so she responded vaguely: "Well, we played table tennis together."
Let's not talk about whether Director Fu and the producer can understand after hearing this. Even if they understand, they will not temporarily replace the female lead because of such a small matter. After all, it is a fact that Song Ruqing's popularity has been increasing since the broadcast of the variety show "Towards the West". Many middle-aged women have called her "like my daughter" because of her straightforward and silly performance in the show, which has attracted a wave of "mom fans".
They just feel a little regretful, afraid that they can't use this incident to get closer to the island owner.
Li Yaolin has seen this filming plan. Since the two parties have already cooperated once, many rules do not need to be reiterated, which saves a lot of trouble. There is generally no problem with this plan, only the part involving the new venue needs to be discussed.
After negotiating with Li Yaolin, Director Fu went to visit Mr. Chen again, and by the way, see if he can ask Mr. Chen to compose the music for the second part of "The Mermaid Love Song".
Mr. Chen has composed music for many international films and even won the Oscar for Best Original Score, but he has never composed music for a TV series since he became blind.
Moreover, Director Fu and Mr. Chen only met a few times a dozen years ago, but they have never worked together. He thought that a composer of Mr. Chen's status would not easily compose music for a mainland drama, so he did not plan to have too high expectations this time.
To his surprise, Mr. Chen declined at first, but after learning about the content of his filming, he suddenly changed his mind and agreed.
Director Fu was very surprised and asked him why he changed his mind.
Mr. Chen smiled and said, "Maybe, we both have a connection with mermaids!"
Both parties resonated on this matter: Mr. Chen told Director Fu about the musical inspiration he got from it, and the latter also had creative inspiration and thought of how to make the image of the mermaid queen more full!
They got along very well and chatted for a long time until Director Fu remembered that he had an appointment and said goodbye.
Director Fu reminded Mr. Chen of some past events. He pondered for a long time before calling Shu Shuang to invite her to his solo concert: "It's too boring to play alone... Of course, I didn't invite you because I was afraid that the audience would fall asleep. It's just that you are the only one I can think of who has a voice as beautiful as a mermaid ."
Shu Shuang smiled and said, "I recently learned a word from a young person, and it is very suitable to describe you now."
Mr. Chen was about to hang up the phone: "Don't say bad words."
"Arrogant."
Mr. Chen: "..."
In addition to Shu Shuang, Mr. Chen also invited several friends, but none of these friends would perform on stage. As for the rest, he handed them over to his assistant to handle.
With Shu Shuang's help, Mr. Chen's solo concert broke the circle in an instant, and the media called it his and Shu Shuang's "comeback" work, which was full of gimmicks. After the pre-sale of tickets for the open-air theater was opened, the VIP seats in the front row at 1,288 yuan were quickly snapped up. In less than a week, more than 6,000 tickets were sold for a single session. This solo concert will be held for three days, a total of three sessions, and even 8,000 tickets were sold for the weekend session.
The ticket buyers came from all over the world, including fans of Mr. Chen, fans of Shu Shuang, and wealthy people who simply liked music.
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While everyone focused their attention on the open-air theater and the concert, the island owner Li Yaolin was sitting in the office playing with his mobile phone, no, studying the Poseidon Holiday APP.
Although she does not have enough development funds to develop Jiahai, it is a waste to leave this place alone, so she can plan ahead.
In fact, Jiahai is more suitable to be developed into a "Summer and Beach" themed attraction than the beach attached to the Cultural and Creative Industrial Park. However, there are already white beaches and silver beaches. Developing another beach will not make any difference to tourists. Instead, it will be like "the left hand hits the right hand, and the two hands snatch tourists from each other."
Therefore, Li Yaolin believes that the positioning of Jiahai should be different from Xingzhou Island and the Cultural and Creative Industrial Park, but it should not deviate from the core of Xingzhou Island culture.
Li Yaolin really wanted to open a water park, but Jiahai has a special geographical location, surrounded by the sea on three sides. If a typhoon comes and destroys the water park here, what should we do?
Moreover, 300 acres of land is still too small for a water park... This is too embarrassing. She said before that she had too much land. Sure enough, whether there is more land or less land depends on what it is used for.
Li Yaolin looked at the ridges next to Jiahai, and suddenly an idea came to her mind: using the height advantage of the ridges to build a cross-sea cableway across the reserve, so that tourists can enjoy the sea view while watching rare animals such as whale sharks, killer whales and white dolphins in the waters of the reserve.
However, the longest sea cable car in the world is 7,889 meters. The distance between Liantou Port and Xingzhou Island is 3.5 nautical miles, or 6,482 meters. But if the starting point and the end point of the cable car are set at the top of the mountain, the distance between the mountain and the highest point of Xingzhou Island must be increased by 2 kilometers on the basis of 6,482 meters. In other words, the length of the cable car is at least 8,482 meters. With
such a length, and considering that the geographical location of the oil market is often attacked by typhoons, it is unknown whether the cost will be ridiculously high.
Li Yaolin tried to plan it on the APP.
The system popped up a reminder: "Do you want to spend 320 million yuan to build the 'sea cable car' project?"
Li Yaolin: "..."
Very good, it is a project that I can't plan for the time being.
The author has something to say:
Island owner: Don’t come to me for projects that cost more than 1 yuan.
——Finally
I’ve written about the offshore cable car project, ha ha ha!
——This
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