Lianwan City TV station spent two days in Dabao Village, filming enough footage before returning home.
With the TV station staff gone, Liang Liang naturally wouldn't stay at home any longer. On April 3rd, he drove back to the Lianwan City Dance Hall to handle his own affairs.
He still has a lot of things to deal with.
Liang Liang had already experienced the efficiency of Lianwan City TV station when they made a documentary about Blue Shark last time, and this time they were just as fast.
They returned to Lianwan on the 3rd to start organizing and editing the footage, and the documentary was performed on an arts and culture program on the evening of the 6th.
When Li Zhizhou informed him, Liang Liang was somewhat skeptical, but he only believed it when the TV station notified him.
That evening, he, Xu Wei, and several other people staying at the music school gathered together to watch a documentary.
The music school's new building was completed and three floors were used; the fourth floor was used as offices and dormitories.
He moved here from the dance hall, right next to Xu Wei's dormitory. Several other people who worked in sound effects and lived further away also lived here.
Although the documentary was filmed, edited and released in just one week, its quality is still quite excellent, and the past and present of the Yinna River Band are vividly shown in the film.
They worked in the fields, sweating profusely; they sat at the edge of the fields, playing musical instruments with contentment.
They perfectly blended the pastoral scenery of spring with their folk songs.
All the songs they sang appeared in the documentary, some as a segment, some as a section, and the only song performed in its entirety was "Good Luck," which was featured as the ending theme.
After its release, this documentary began its somewhat legendary journey. It was picked up by a provincial TV station and broadcast there, and then it was spotted by CCTV's agricultural channel and appeared on CCTV's agricultural channel.
Although it's just an agricultural channel, its audience is far larger than that of a single city or province's television station; it has a very wide reach.
Now, it's no wonder the Yinna River Band is famous; a significant portion of the population across the country knows that there's a peasant band in China.
The most direct consequence was that their album sales began to rise significantly.
The daily sales volume has more than doubled or tripled from a lukewarm two or three thousand copies, with the average daily sales volume rising to five or six thousand copies.
If this trend continues, it won't be a dream for this album to surpass Liang Liang's initial estimate of 500,000 copies.
Of course, these things won't happen now, but a month from now.
The day after this documentary was shown in Lianwan City, a documentary by CCTV about the Blue Shark band and the current state of rock music in Lianwan was also broadcast on CCTV's Arts and Entertainment Channel.
The documentary was nearly forty minutes long, which greatly exceeded Liang Liang's expectations. He thought it would be good if it was thirty minutes long, but he didn't expect it to reach forty minutes including the opening credits.
This shows that the documentary is quite significant.
With such a long broadcast period, the content is naturally richer. The documentary is edited very tightly from beginning to end, and there is not a single dull moment.
Centered around the Blue Shark band, the book covers dozens of rock bands of varying sizes in Lianwan City, providing a relatively detailed and authentic overview of the current state of rock bands in the city.
Liang Liang watched the film very carefully from beginning to end. Of course, he wasn't just watching for the visuals and entertainment. Instead, he used the editing and the content of the scenes to deduce the message that the publicity department behind the film wanted to convey to the national audience.
The broadcast of this film has sparked a great response in China. Many rock musicians were moved to tears. The fact that CCTV could broadcast such a program shows that the country has not forgotten rock music and that rock music can still be saved.
While the rock musicians understood the intended message, it's hard to say whether they grasped the spirit required by the publicity department.
When the film was being shown, Liang Liang recorded it using a VCR through the television's signal output interface, and then watched it many times afterward.
Basically, the propaganda department's requirements for rock music can be seen in this film.
When the CCTV production team was recording the footage, they listened to dozens of songs of different styles. However, all the songs featured in this documentary are those with healthy and uplifting lyrics and melodies that inspire the spirit. Even love songs were hardly selected, and the few works that had some social criticism were nowhere to be found.
Furthermore, the film also focuses on the views on love held by the members of the Blue Shark band, and emphasizes that the members of the Blue Mountain band have not had any scandals so far.
This also reflects, from another perspective, the country's requirements for rock musicians regarding their relationships with men and women.
This is a serious matter. What if his relationship with Xiaoqian and Xiaoyao is exposed one day...?
The collapse of his public image is a minor issue; what's truly disappointing is how much the higher-ups must have been disappointed by his role as a model.
If that's really the case, how many lies would it take to cover it up?
But this doesn't seem to be a big deal. Once the crime of hooliganism is abolished in 1997, this kind of thing won't matter anymore. As long as he doesn't commit any crimes from now until the day the crime of hooliganism is abolished in 1997, it's fine.
Liang Liang gets a headache whenever he thinks of Xiaoqian and Xiaoyao.
It's time to settle things with these two. If this drags on any longer, they'll be twenty, and things will get even more difficult to handle.
Why did I get involved with them in the first place?
It seems that mature women are more reliable; at least they won't cling to you. Looks like I should probably find someone else for *that* kind of thing in the future…
Pshaw! What are you thinking?
Liang Liang quickly gave herself a gentle slap to bring herself back to her senses.
Han Chui, that guy, crawled out of some rat hole and stood in front of Liang Liang, looking him up and down, left and right, and no matter how you looked at him, he didn't seem like a simple person.
"You look a little unnatural, as if you've done something shameful... Being caught in bed with someone else should make you look like this."
Liang Liang pouted: "You're so experienced, have you ever been caught cheating on someone? Tell me about it so I can have a laugh."
"I'm talking to you now, how did you get sidetracked onto me? You're not hiding a woman behind your physics degree, are you?"
Han Chui then transformed into a police dog, searching everywhere, turning boxes and cabinets upside down.
"Have you finished talking? If you have something to say, just tell me. Where would a woman come from in my office? Haven't you had enough? Even if there were a woman, would she hide in a drawer?"
This thing is getting funnier and funnier.
"The matter with Haiyun Audio-Visual Company has been settled. The rotating department will be conducting an inspection of our hardware in the next couple of days, but I think it'll just be a formality."
The publicity department's review process for privately-owned audio-visual publishing units is still very strict.
The checks on both hardware and software are quite stringent.
But Liang Liang wasn't worried about these things; he was confident that his audio-visual company would pass the hardware test.
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