Chapter 446: One Dance, Three Songs

Zhou Yan did not tell Li Xiuhai that Jinhong Electronics was his family's property, but it didn't matter, as long as Li Xiuhai knew that Jinhong Electronics was related to him and that the leasing relationship between them would not affect Jinhong Electronics' acquisition of them.

The conditions given by Jinhong Electronics were basically not offered by other companies, because Jinhong Electronics was in a period of rapid development, so it could absorb so many workers.

Originally, Li Xiuhai was worried that Zhou Yan's studio would affect the acquisition, but now that the biggest problem has been solved, there are no other problems.

Now he can basically wait for the acquisition later with peace of mind.

Halfway through the meal, Li Xiuhai couldn't help but ask, "After Jinhong Electronics acquires our factory, will the three buildings still be rented to you?"

Zhou Yan smiled, "Jinhong Electronics won't want your place."

"Won't want our place... You mean-"

Li Xiuhai thought of a possibility, and his eyes widened.

Could it be that this acquisition was mainly to make room for Zhou Yan's studio?

Li Xuhai was secretly shocked. What kind of background does Zhou Yan have to make him so successful in Yanjing?

Looking at Li Xuhai with wide eyes, Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Maybe when you come back in a while, the factory will look very different."

"I'm afraid it will take a long time for me to come here next time. If the acquisition goes smoothly, I will go to Huai Mine to work after the personnel migration is completed."

"So soon?" Zhou Yan said in surprise.

"Yeah." Li Xuhai nodded, "Originally, this matter was quite urgent. If the situation at the factory was not so bad, I would have left a long time ago. But now it's good. The factory has been acquired, and I can leave in a more decent way."

For Li Xuhai, the acquisition of the factory may be considered a political achievement.

After all, compared with other factories, their electronics factory can be said to have landed perfectly. Now the factory will lose money if it stays for one day.

After dinner, Li Xuhai left. It can be seen that he was in a good mood.

...

The electronics factory was eager to get rid of it, and Jinhong Electronics did not drag its feet at all.

In less than two weeks, the acquisition was finalized.

On the morning of November 22, Zhou Yan just arrived at the door of the studio and saw Jiang Mengfei and Liu Qing standing next to Building No. 3 and looking towards the south gate.

"Brother Qing, Mengfei, what are you looking at?" Zhou Yan asked.

Jiang Mengfei pointed his mouth towards the south gate and said, "I don't know what happened. This morning, the equipment in the factory was transported out one by one."

"The factory was acquired, and the equipment and workers were moved away."

"Acquired? Such a big news, but I didn't hear any rumors." Jiang Mengfei asked in surprise.

"You don't deal with them every day, how can you hear rumors?"

"What about this factory? Are there other people moving in?" Liu Qing asked.

Zhou Yan shook his head, "No, we will be the only ones in this factory from now on."

"Only us? Then these lands will be wasted here? I thought there was some plan."

"Of course there is a plan." Zhou Yan pointed to the vacant land in front, "I plan to clean up that place and build a basketball court. The previous basketball court was too dilapidated and the location was not very good."

"Building a basketball court is of course good, but there will be no problems, right?"

Zhou Yan pointed to the building in the southwest, "This building will be demolished first. I plan to build a living building there, and put the canteen, convenience store and temporary dormitory in that building."

Hearing Zhou Yan's increasingly outrageous words, Jiang Mengfei curled his lips and said, "Old Zhou, look at what you said, it's like you acquired the electronics factory."

Zhou Yan did not answer, but just looked at him with a smile.

Liu Qing was the first to react, "Did we really acquire the electronics factory?"

"Yes, and no."

Jiang Mengfei said anxiously, "Whether it is or not, don't play dumb."

"My second brother acquired the electronics factory, but they only wanted people and equipment, and left this place to us."

Jiang Mengfei couldn't help but give a thumbs up, "Our second brother, awesome!"

Liu Qing licked his lips and said, "Such a large place, can we use it all?"

"Don't worry, Brother Qing, it will definitely be used up, maybe it won't be enough in the future."

Not enough...

The area of ​​the electronics factory is not actually very large, after all, it is close to the Third Ring Road.

But it is also more than 300 acres, which is too large for their studio.

They now have two studios combined, excluding the orchestra, and only have dozens of employees, and the two existing buildings have not been fully utilized.

The Yanjing Film Studio, not far from them, has less than 400 acres of land.

And most of the area of ​​the Yanjing Film Studio is used in the film and television base in the back, and the office building and editing building in the front occupy very little land.

It is impossible for their studio to build a film and television base like Yanjing Film Studio.

In Liu Qing's opinion, there is no need for this. It is really not cost-effective to build a film and television base by yourself.

Seeing Liu Qing's disbelief, Zhou Yan smiled and said, "This is all for the future. It's still early. Let's set up the TV series department first."

Jiang Mengfei rubbed his hands and said, "Will our TV series department occupy a building alone in the future?"

"If it develops well, a building is definitely indispensable."

In Zhou Yan's plan, the TV series department, film department, and music department should all be divided into different buildings in the future. In addition, Zhou Yan is also planning to build a new media department in a few years.

The entire park will be built into a media convergence center.

"One building, just thinking about it makes me excited."

Zhou Yan smiled and patted Jiang Mengfei on the shoulder, "Okay, go back to work."

The post-production work of "Time Traveler" has come to an end and should be finished in the next two days.

"Oh, by the way, Director Han just came, and he is probably in the projection room now." Jiang Mengfei remembered to tell Zhou Yan that Han Sanping had come.

"He came so early." Zhou Yan was a little surprised.

These days, Han Sanping began to ask Zhou Yan about the progress here. When he called yesterday, he also said that he would come to see it today, but Zhou Yan didn't expect that Han Sanping would come so early, one step ahead of him.

"It can be seen that Director Han is very anxious."

Zhou Yan nodded, "Well, let's go up."

...

When we arrived at the projection room, Han Sanping was already watching the film.

He had just arrived and the film had just started.

Seeing Zhou Yan coming, Han Sanping smiled and said, "You came just in time, watch the film with me."

In fact, Han Sanping had seen the film before, but the sound track had not been put in at that time, which was equivalent to a silent film, and the feeling of watching it was completely different.

Zhou Yan nodded, moved a chair, and walked to sit next to Han Sanping.

"How is the review going?" Zhou Yan asked.

"No problem. There is one last step. The movie is scheduled for December 20th. What do you think?"

"I'm fine with it. I'll listen to you."

Han Sanping turned his head and looked at Zhou Yan, "You can't just listen to us. Your opinion is very important."

"I don't know much about the main release date."

"I'm worried that you have other things to do. Didn't you say last time that you would attend the Writers' Congress in mid-December?"

"Yes, the Writers' Congress is on December 16th."

"Will the Writers' Congress last more than one day?"

"Five days in total, just ending on the 20th."

"Will that have an impact?"

Zhou Yan shook his head, "No, I'll just show up in the first two days and attend the meeting. The election and change of term later have little to do with me, and I don't need to be there."

For the Writers' Congress, Zhou Yan and his people are marginal figures, at most a mascot, and the serious change of term has nothing to do with him.

"In that case, let's set it for December 20th. I talked to Mr. Xu on the phone last night, and we can start promoting it later. Mr. Xu's idea is to hold a premiere ceremony on that day."

"No problem on my side, but you have to ask other people about their time."

For the premiere, the main creative staff must be invited to the scene, so it is still necessary to avoid conflicts with other people's schedules.

Han Sanping smiled and said, "Of course I have to ask, but their situation does not affect the result. Even if other people don't have time to come, as long as you are there, it will be enough. After all, as long as you are there, it means that the director, screenwriter, male lead, and music director are all there. Isn't this lineup enough?"

Zhou In fact, Han Sanping was right. If other people don't come to the premiere, as long as he is there, it will be enough.

And if nothing unexpected happens, the heroine Wang Zuxian will definitely have time to come.

The male and female protagonists and the director are all there, there will be no problem.

Although chatting with Zhou Yan, it did not delay Han Sanping from watching the movie. At this time, the movie was already two and a half minutes in, and the first music in the movie appeared, which was the background music of the dance party.

Han Sanping asked, "Is this your original creation?"

Zhou Yan nodded, "All the music in this movie is my original creation."

Zhou Yan had thought about sampling some other classic songs before, but later he decided to do it all by himself.

"Well, it's a very cheerful song."

Because it is the background song of the dance party, the style is lively and dynamic.

This style does not have much appeal to Han Sanping, nor does it make him feel amazing.

But he is curious about the effect of this recording, because it sounds like it was recorded live, but as far as he knows, the song was not recorded when it was filmed, so it is naturally impossible to be recorded live.

"How is the recording here?" Han Sanping asked.

"The song was recorded in post-production, and the other sounds were recorded on site."

"Why do they look like they were recorded together? Did you use any special technical means?"

"It's just two tracks mixed together, nothing special."

"Really?" Han Sanping was a little surprised, "We used two tracks before, but we couldn't achieve such an effect."

If two tracks are used in parallel for live sound recording and post-production recording, it may give people a sense of separation. Many domestic movies are like this. The sound sounds very strange, and even feels out of sync.

So many directors, if they don't receive satisfactory sound on site, may record separately and try to use only one track, so as to avoid defects.

Of course, no matter how well the sound recorded in post-production is recorded, there will still be some sense of separation, but it is much better than mixing two tracks together.

Zhou Yan smiled and explained, "Our equipment is good, and this section is really hard, so the mixed feeling is okay. Of course, it also costs a lot of money."

"No wonder you say that post-production costs money." Han Sanping sighed.

Compared to Zhou Yan's films, the money spent on post-production for other films produced by their studio is really pitiful.

There's nothing they can do about it. Their equipment is old and no matter how good their technology is, they can't do anything good.

The money spent on Zhou Yan's movie is really not in vain. The picture and sound are on a completely different level from ordinary domestic movies.

After watching the dance scene, Han Sanping couldn't help but sigh. Zhou Yan really studied the sound effects.

If this dance scene had been filmed by a domestic film, the background sounds would have been almost the same, but when Zhou Yan shot it, it was very layered.

Under different scenes, the sound will change differently, and this change is very smooth.

The audience will follow the sound and unconsciously focus on where the director wants them to.

In fact, this thing is not an equipment problem. On the one hand, it is the directors’ different levels of sound research, and on the other hand, the difficulty of shooting is different.

If you want to make the sound layered, you may need to conduct multiple tests. One shot requires a lot of effort, which is something that many directors cannot do.

Han Sanping also noticed that three songs appeared in this dance.

"Did you write three songs for this short section?"

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Actually, it's not three songs. Basically, that's all you hear."

“Every song is just a fragment?”

"Totaling these three songs together, the recording took less than two minutes."

"Isn't this troublesome?"

"It's not a problem for me. It's mainly because the singers are in trouble. I found three singers to sing these three songs, and I asked them to come to Yanjing to record them."

"In other words, they came all the way, and each of them could only record for more than half a minute on average."

"That's not true. Some singers have songs behind them."

Han Sanping sighed, "It's just you. Anyone else wouldn't be able to find so many singers."

The key is that these are all European and American singers. Except for Zhou Yan, no one else in China has such appeal.

"It's not like I don't give them money. If you have money, life will be easy." Zhou Yan said with a smile.

Han Sanping rolled his eyes, thinking that Zhou Yan really deserved a beating for what he said.

It's not easy to come to China, and Zhou Yan actually said it was easy.

And as far as Han Sanping knew, Zhou Yan didn't give these singers much money.

After all, the budget of the movie is here, and only more than 2 million yuan is spent on music production.

The total cost of "Time Traveler" is 29 million yuan, and the music production fee is 9%.

This ratio is already outrageous. Looking at movies across the country, this is the only one where scorpions poop.

But more than two million yuan is really not enough for the singers invited.

Not to mention anything else, these people have to spend a lot of money just for round-trip air tickets and food and accommodation after landing.

Apart from this money, Zhou Yan didn't have much money to pay those singers.

It can be said that those singers came here solely for Zhou Yan.

For many singers, they are happy to be able to sing Zhou Yan's songs. (End of chapter)