Chapter 46 What is the answer?
Compared with those not-so-gorgeous dances, music is more important to "Singing and Dance Youth". It ignites the soul of the entire movie, ignites the audience's emotions through singing, makes them resonate with it, and allows them to sing together while watching the movie.
And they will never forget it, so the original soundtrack of the movie will be sold out.
But the first thing to do is that those songs are in line with the plot, the melody is easy to remember and catchy, and the style is youthful and fashionable. Whether it is the fast songs when playing basketball or the lyrical songs of the male and female protagonists, they must be written in the current popular songs.
Although they did not want any famous songs, these requirements added up to a certain degree of difficulty. As early as when the crew of "Singing and Dance" was planned, Flame Film Company contacted many composers to explain the song requirements to them clearly, hoping to get satisfactory works.
After this period, the company also received replies from some composers. Wang Yang and the crew's art director reviewed the songs together. Several of them were very good, including the "Wild Cats" songs. Wang Yang bought them all, and paid hundreds of thousands of yuan in copyright purchase fees for this company and obtained ownership of those songs. The problem is that several lyrical songs, especially the songs sung by the male and female protagonists in the last round of auditions, could not be selected no matter how they were selected.
"Hi, Sandy." Wang Yang sat at the desk, frowned and scanned the email address on the computer screen, and asked Sandy Parker on the other side of his phone: "Do you have no new songs? You will be shooting the song and dance scenes in two days, and you will also have to take a few a cappella scenes. I need the right songs!"
"Sorry, Young, we haven't received any new reply yet." Sandy Pix's tone was very helpless. Whether this task can be completed does not depend on him, but on those composers, he is powerless now.
Wang Yang closed the web page of his email, but suddenly remembered something and asked quickly: "Hey, Sandy, have you ever contacted David Lawrence?" Sandy Parkes' puzzled voice came over: "Which David Lawrence?"
David Lawrence is the original music compiler of the original "Singing and Dance Youth", but he is not very famous now, but he will get an opportunity to compile the original music of "American Pi", and then he gradually became famous and became an arrangement of films such as "Singing and Dance Youth".
Wang Yang thought about the information about David Lawrence and explained to Sandy: "Uh... it's the arrangement of "Crazy Summer Camp". I've watched that movie and felt that his music style was very light and pleasant, and it should be very suitable for us."
Yes, it was the movie "Crazy Summer Camp" starring Jessica. Wang Yang really watched it. He went to Jessica and watched her performance when she was 14 years old. It was quite interesting. He also took a lot of effort to buy a collector's version of DVD on EBAY, although Jessica had several.
"Sandy, try it. You can quickly contact David Lawrence to see if he has any good songs." Wang Yang held the mouse and opened the official website of "Singing and Dance" and said to his phone: "If it is suitable, I plan to hire him to give the movie's original music."
Sandy Pix agreed and said, "Okay, I get it, I'll contact him right away."
After finishing the call, Wang Yang put down his cell phone, took the shooting schedule and looked at it. After finishing shooting the non-singing and dancing parts, he would take pictures of the singing and dancing scenes that had found good songs.
The official website of "Singing and Dance" is very youthful and simple, and the content and functions are rich, especially the stills. There are new pictures almost two days later. Wang Yang logged into the backstage of the website and uploaded a few new stills. They were all taken in the roof garden today. The scenery there is so beautiful, and it is very suitable as stills.
Releasing stills is a conventional method of film promotion, because the production cycle of a movie is generally very long. During this period, fans will gradually forget the movie and turn their attention to other places. Stills can satisfy their cravings, maintain the popularity of attention, and keep the movie fans expecting the movie, so that they will not be completely forgotten in one corner.
However, the stills posted by Wang Yang are not only effective. In fact, the stills he uploads today will be divided into the "Eastern High School" column. He wants to create the effect of "Dream School" on his website. It is not to advertise the Eastern High School in Salt Lake City, but to promote the movie.
This is also the reason why he chose Eastern High School. The school has beautiful environment, complete facilities, spacious, clean, and everything that students like. You should know that not every school is so beautiful, including the Lincoln High School he studied in the past, which is much inferior. As long as the "East High School" is portrayed as a campus holy place in the minds of teenagers, make them feel friendly and make them like that school, they will like to see the stories that happened there.
In fact, since the start of filming, "Singing and Dance" has launched a new round of preliminary publicity work, and uploading stills on the official website is only one of them. As the first person to eat the crab "viral marketing", Wang Yang naturally would not let go of this magic weapon. The company specially hired several new employees, and his daily job was to speak on the Internet. The forums of each school are their caregivers, but it has not been too much. Just keep that one post.
Now is definitely not the time to detonate the bomb. The effect Wang Yang wants is to keep it from being forgotten and maintain a certain level of attention; then when it comes to the release stage, it will carry out comprehensive bombing publicity.
After browsing the official website for a while, checking the current publicity effect, making sure everything is moving on the set track. Seeing that it was already past 11 o'clock, Wang Yang turned off his computer, brushed his teeth, and walked to the bed to prepare to go to bed. Just as he covered his quilt, the phone on the bedside table suddenly rang. He reached out and took it to see it. It was a text message from Jessica: "Yang, good night, I'm very happy tonight."
Wang Yang smiled slightly and replied to a text message: "Good night, go to bed quickly!" He put his phone back and closed his eyes to sleep, but just when he was about to fall asleep, he vaguely heard someone calling him: "Yang..." and then a knock on the door, and another voice was from someone: "Yang, are you asleep?"
"Who?" Wang Yang opened his eyes reluctantly, wiped the corners of his eyes and walked out of bed. He came to the door and opened the door, but saw Michael Pete standing outside with his hands in his pockets. Wang Yang was stunned, frowned in confusion, and asked, "Michael? Is there anything wrong? It's so late."
Michael Pete glanced at the room and said, "I didn't bother you, Jessica shouldn't be there?" Wang Yang raised his head angrily and said, "Please, she is not here, but you have disturbed me to sleep! What's wrong?" After that, he turned around and walked away yawning, preparing to pour a glass of water.
"Yang, tomorrow..." Michael Pete walked in. He took a deep breath and looked at Wang Yang and asked, "I will have my show tomorrow, right?"
Wang Yang looked at him, took a glass of warm water and nodded, "Yes." He laughed and said, "I'm very nervous?"
"Maybe." Michael Pete touched his hair and blinked his eyes unnaturally. He pulled out a cigarette with his other hand. Wang Yang shouted at him and said, "Don't smoke here, or I'll kick you out!" Michael Pete shrugged helplessly, put the cigarette back into the cigarette box, and walked more anxiously, and asked again: "I'll shoot tomorrow, right?"
Wang Yang put on a coat and replied to him: "If you come here to make sure of this, you can leave and take a photo 100% tomorrow!"
"I know, but I..." Michael Pete exhaled a long time, unable to express his feelings and spread his hands open. Looking at Wang Yang, who was sitting by the bed with a careless face, he suddenly asked, "Yang, what was it like when you first filmed a film movie that day?"
Hearing this question, Wang Yang's tiredness disappeared. He recalled: "Nervous, excited, happy, happy...what else? You have done what you have been pursuing, it's really crazy!" He shook his head and smiled faintly, "Actually, there is still a little confusion." Michael Pete asked thoughtfully, "Confused? Why?"
"I don't know." Wang Yang lay down on the bed, looking at the pink and white ceiling, and whispered: "At that time, there was a voice saying in my heart. Is this what I want? I did it? Have I fulfilled my dream? That's it?"
Michael Pete frowned, was silent for a moment, looked at Wang Yang, and asked, "What is the answer?" Wang Yang suddenly turned over and said with a troubled look on his face: "Answer? I don't know, tell me, I think it's not over yet, I did it, but it's not over like that."
"What a complicated mood." Michael Pete smiled. Wang Yang also laughed and said irrelevantly: "Man, you will know tomorrow." Michael Pete nodded silently, as if he had begun to get anxious again, and habitually wanted to take out cigarettes. Wang Yang immediately said impatiently: "Get out, go out and smoke, I'm going to sleep." Michael Pete walked out with a cigarette in his mouth, and said "good night" before closing the door.
After driving Michael Pete away, Wang Yang slept in the bed, but suddenly he was completely sleepy and kept asking in his mind, what was the answer?
After tossing and turning for a while, he simply got up and put on his coat, walked to the balcony outside, looking at the dark night sky, the cold wind trembled all over and made his thoughts very clear: "Is this what I want? Of course, shooting a movie is what I want; did I do it, it seems that I did it, yes, now I am a director, I have found what I am pursuing, and then what?"
Keep making movies! Isn’t this exactly what I like to do and want? Wang Yang suddenly laughed, the answer was so simple, he did it, but the dream didn’t end, it wouldn’t end.
"At least I haven't watched the last film of "Paradise Cinema", right?" Wang Yang smiled happily and shook his head. At first, he planned to watch it after the release of "Ghost Records", but on that day, he was reluctant to go and watch it. It seemed that he would lose a precious thing after watching it. So he told himself that he would go and watch it after his first film was released.
Chapter completed!