Yangcheng, Feiyang Entertainment Branch. In the general manager's office, Anpingle was holding a report sheet and was grinning from ear to ear.
Listed above are the income and expenditure reports of the Yangcheng Branch over the past year, as well as the compositions and income of all employees in the composition department.
"Except for Jiang Kan, who was sent by the headquarters for support, our own composition department employees have gradually begun to produce results..." He looked at the names of the songs on the list, like an old farmer looking at the branches in an orchard. The numerous fruits on his head made him smile so much that he even arched his eyebrows.
Thanks to the leadership of Jiang Kan after he came to the branch, the composition department here, which was originally a stagnant water, is now as alive as being put into a catfish pond. Headed by Jiang Kan's disciple Zhao Junping
Among the "indigenous" creative staff, some income has begun to be recorded one after another. After all, after experiencing personnel shocks and being poached by the other two major companies, the remaining number 7 or 8 composers in the poor Yangcheng branch can only be said to be two or three kittens, and they simply cannot support one person. Business performance of branches of giant companies.
In addition, the headquarters has not paid much attention to the performance of these Cantonese film and television and music works, represented by the Hong Kong area, which are gradually declining. The performance and the mental outlook of the staff here are also similar to those of a large mainland factory in the 1980s. The depression and decline of the main office building continued at the same rate and in the same form, with no possibility of turning around.
But fortunately, after the savior Jiang Kan joined, with his superhuman creative ability, he played a huge role in restoring the company's serious loss of credibility and popularity.
Because of his huge popularity and climax composition skills, some business orders from old customers have begun to flow back to the company.
Some new customers also began to pay attention to this place because of the huge success in the past, and occasionally handed over some small and medium-sized business orders.
Under Jiang Kan's training, Zhao Junping has changed from a person who can only undertake business of less than 500,000 yuan.
The "little minions" have now become the main force responsible for medium-sized productions with a million-level production. The other members of the composition department also began to study hard for the second time, constantly improving their own skills, and gradually increased their ability to accept small and medium-sized demand orders between 500,000 and 1 million. They were no longer the same as before. We can only take over the needs of small and micro companies with less than 500,000 yuan.
"It seems that applying to the headquarters to send Daniel here is indeed the most correct decision I have made this year!" Manager An touched the stubble on his chin, and the corners of his mouth formed a curve that could not be concealed. .
"Yes, Uncle Kan is really a very powerful person. Not only is he very powerful, but he can also inspire the people around him to become powerful as well!" Xiang Ping, who sent him these documents, also looked emotional, They had just recently gone to Shashi to visit Jiang Kan, who was resting in bed. The other party said that if the company received any big orders that no one else could handle, they could send them directly to him. For this kind of conscientious work attitude, both uncle and nephew were impressed. It is extremely admiration and appreciation.
So now, after getting a relatively large order, their first thought is no longer to invite Jiang Kan directly as soon as they meet, but to think about whether there is anyone in their original team who can By taking on this order, you don't have to trouble your golden thigh with everything.
However, now we have encountered a new demand, which is neither high nor low, just about 1.5 million.
Asking Jiang Kan to do it feels like overkill. However, the original composing employees in the company are really not able to handle such song demands, which are still difficult for them.
It is said to be a song, but it is only partially played in the movie. It is used to portray a supporting character who relied on his father's influence to be arrogant in school, but was later retaliated by his time traveler classmates and was put in a miserable situation. It was played during his tragic scene. music.
At first, Manager An wanted Zhao Junping to be in charge of the soundtrack. However, after Zhao Junping carefully studied the movie script and song requirements, he awkwardly said that it would be okay if he just made an ordinary theme song, but he was still unable to do such situational background music that fit the character's image and the plot's encounters.
After seeing the demand, other composers also said that they could not make it. When they heard this music, they would think of the difficult and demanding songs of this funny supporting character, and asked him to choose another candidate.
Manager An didn't have any hope for his own composing staff from the beginning. He just asked casually and didn't expect two or three of them to be able to complete this task.
So in the end, this demand has to be fulfilled by the great god Jiang Kan. I just don’t know if people can appreciate this.
"Only" 1.5 million was paid to score the film.
"Manager Ahn, why don't you contact Uncle Kan? I think he always has a magical and sensitive touch for the soundtracks of these movies. He can always accurately capture the essence of them and write songs that meet the needs of the situation. Come with the soundtrack." As a young employee, Xiang Ping did not think far enough to train young composers, so she bluntly proposed that Jiang Kan be responsible for the creation of this song.
"Okay, let's do it like this. I just hope Jiang Kan likes such a 'small' production."... Shashi, in the special care ward.
Jiang Kan was holding a tablet computer, and on it were their pictures from the little beauty.
A video of a large-scale performance by the "Butterfly Dance" group in Fuso Country. In the video, the auditorium in a medium-sized theater that can accommodate more than 2,000 people is full.
There was no lighting in the theater, and the two thousand audience members each held two orange glow sticks, waving them back and forth quickly and forcefully in time with the singing that filled the hall.
"歌えや歌え心のままに Sing as much as you want アナタの声をさぁhear かせて Let me hear your voice 踊れや踊れ时をforgotれ Forget about time Let's dance as much as we want tonight Let's go crazy together tonight! Let's bloom together tonight Let go!" On the large circular stage, three singers wearing bright long skirts were swaying rhythmically to the singing voice of lead singer Xiaomei. The movements of their feet and hands were also uniform and full of dynamic beauty.
On the screen, Xiaomei holds a microphone in one hand and dances enchantingly with her singing voice in one hand. She stirs up the emotions of the audience like a conductor, making them follow her singing and dancing like a maniac. .
As a man majoring in science and engineering who rarely attended any concerts in the past forty years, he was really unfamiliar with such scenes, and he had only been exposed to them a little more in the past year or so.
"Hey, I really envy their live atmosphere. Tsk tsk, the audience is so enthusiastic. Two thousand people created an aura of 20,000 people! After all, they are all real fans, aren't they? "Smacking his lips, Jiang Kan watched the video sent by this little beauty with some envy, and couldn't help but think about it in his mind.
Previously, the company's leaders promised to hold a concert for themselves if they ranked first on the new song chart three times or ranked second five times within the year.
Counting with fingers, "Chengdu" won the first place in the current period in November last year, but that was in 2022 and was not included in this agreement.
Well, "Blue and White Porcelain" won the first place once in April, and "Above the Moon" in June won the first place, but that time it was a duet with Zhao Yu, and I mostly sang the rap part, so I didn't Know if it counts.
Big Fish in June won second place, and now September's "Secret Fragrance" and "Nunchaku" also have a good chance of taking first place this month.
"By the way, wait, I remember that the best in August is also mine?" He looked through the August list on Feixing Music.
Sure enough, the number one song in the current period was his "Nocturne". The response to this song was very good at the time, but it seemed to have suddenly quieted down after that. Its popularity today is not as high as it was when the program was played. I don’t know what the reason is?
Jiang Kan also asked the system about this issue.
"Half a step ahead is a genius, two or three steps ahead is a madman." This was a systematic answer. Jiang Kan temporarily interpreted it as the musical concept of this song was too advanced, so the people who listened to it at the time were shocked by it. After calming down for a while, I found that I didn't understand something, so it was difficult to discuss it anymore. In the end, the song was given a cold treatment in the market, and there was nothing that could be done about it.
"Okay, anyway, gold will shine sooner or later. With the system, I won't be short of these three to five months, half a year, and a year. Good things will always prove themselves." Jiang Kan didn't have any idea about this problem. Too entangled, Xia Guo's entertainment industry is not without the kind of artistic works that no one understood at the time, and then suddenly became popular, so what does his song mean?
"Ha, if "Above the Moon" is also counted, it has actually ranked first three times now. Will the promise made by Mr. Gu be fulfilled?" After all, it is a song co-sung with Zhao Yu, so this counts It doesn’t count, it just depends on what the leader thinks.
Talking happily about his achievements in his heart, Jiang Kan's face smiled like a blooming flower.
"Ding ding ding~" The phone suddenly rang at this time. He put down the tablet and picked up the phone to take a look.
It was his assistant Xiang Ping who called, and Manager An was not very embarrassed to talk about it himself.
On the phone, Xiang Ping briefly introduced the song request that had been received this time, which was quite difficult for other employees in the branch. At the same time, he also gave a general introduction to the main content of the film that invited the song.
The general content of the movie is that a middle school student who was bullied and had poor grades traveled back to middle school after falling down at a classmate's wedding after graduation. He accidentally discovered that he could use his advanced knowledge and understanding of songs to copy songs and The story of becoming a singer and turning your life around.
Recently, while lying on the hospital bed to recuperate, Jiang Kan also started to watch the Internet that he hadn't watched for a long time. He was actually very familiar and understanding of such plots, and he was completely in line with some of the old-minded middle-aged people of his age. People are not on the same level of acceptance.
The place where this song needs to be used in the movie is when the protagonist's rival, a student whose father is a local official, always uses his own advantages to suppress the protagonist and steals the beautiful class girl who should belong to him. When the protagonist takes advantage of the information generation gap of the times to hit him hard after traveling through time, a song that is sad, miserable and painful needs to be played, and it also needs to have a certain funny effect.
This song will appear in many places in the film and is considered a relatively important soundtrack. However, if it is the theme song of the film, it is not of such importance.
Party A has provided two options. One is to just use a fragment of music where the protagonist hits the tragic supporting character hard, without having to make a complete song. In this case, the price is one million yuan.
One is to produce a complete song, which will not only be used in these places, but will also be used as one of the promotional songs for the entire movie. In this case, the quotation is two million yuan.
Therefore, in the understanding of Manager An and Xiang Ping, this is a song request list for Zhongbuliao that is estimated to be worth 1.5 million yuan. The other party's requirements are very high and it takes a lot of energy to make it.
If we don't do it, the performance of more than one million yuan, the Yangcheng branch is not yet at the level where even a million yuan remuneration is looked down upon.
"That's right..." Jiang Kan thought briefly after listening to their introduction.
From the perspective of Xiang Ping on the other end of the phone, Uncle Kan was thinking about the difficulty of making the two options and whether they matched the price.
Indeed, from an outsider's point of view, considering Jiang Kan's current net worth and celebrity status, the creation of a complete song worth more than two million yuan is the right level. There is no need to lower one's net worth to make some fun works.
But for Jiang Kan, it doesn't matter. After all, he has only been working in this new industry for a year and has not had time to cultivate the so-called
"Celebrity airs" is a bad habit. As far as this list is concerned, of course there is no possibility for him to choose option one.
When I buy songs from the system, I always buy them in their entirety, with no fragments of them coming from anywhere.
He was actually consulting the system to see if there was a soundtrack suitable for this movie in the system's music library.
"There must be some. The host doesn't have to worry about this."
"But just like the previous "Pure Land of Paradise", there are too many such songs, and the host needs to listen and select by himself. This system will not actively give selections. The host can also regard this as a way to exercise his appreciation and appreciation ability. The theme is to train the thinking ability." With the answers given by the system, Jiang Kan felt at ease.
I don’t know why, but when I’m choosing songs like this, I always have a certain feeling guiding me, and I’m always able to pick out a song that’s suitable and suitable for everyone to give thumbs up to. Song comes.
After ending the call with Xiang Ping, Jiang Kan entered the system's music library to make selections. This time, the system provided ten songs that it believed met this requirement for Jiang Kan to choose from.
These songs are the soundtracks of old TV series or movies that are selected by the system and meet the requirements of Party A and are relatively retro. A single song was a well-known song that was spread all over the streets in the past. It is only in time that It was gradually sealed in the corner of people's memory under the influence of erosion.
As soon as their melodies ring in the ears, they will naturally awaken the memories of those who were crazy about them. Such songs are used as a part of new movies.
The "hook" will naturally be quite effective in triggering emotional resonance among the audience.
"Well, let's listen to this song "Millions of Questions" first? It seems to be a song from a Chinese TV series... It does sound quite contemporary..."
"If this song is used, the supporting character will ask thousands of times why he can't beat the protagonist. This idea is still very good? Can the audience accept such emotional reverse guidance?" Jiang Kan clicked on the song , began to appreciate it carefully, and at the same time, I was also thinking about whether it could achieve the required comedy effect of being both sad and a little funny and cute.
five minutes later.
"It feels almost meaningless. The song is not sad enough, and if used as a comedy movie, it would appear too serious and formal, failing to meet the emotional conflict requirements of the movie..." He scratched his itchy chin and gave up. this song.
"How about trying this song "I Don't Want to Say"? This is also the soundtrack of a well-known TV series..." Jiang Kan clicked on the icon of the second song and began to listen carefully.
"There is nothing wrong with the song itself, and the lyrics are quite concise and sensational..."
"If this song is used, can it be understood that the supporting character was beaten again and again by the protagonist who has traveled through time, and by the end of the beating, he was speechless and choked, with nothing to say?" With this thought in mind, Jiang Kan closed his eyes. , listening carefully.
five minutes later.
"This... the sense of age is still too strong, and it is more about the heroine's call and helplessness to the hero, plus a little bit of hatred for the iron that cannot be transformed into steel... The pathos of the times is too strong, change it First."
""Young Aspirations Don't Tell the Sorrows"? The title of this song seems to be very suitable for the requirements of the movie. The supporting characters are bullied by the protagonist time and time again. They fall down and get up again and then fall again. The young people don't know what it feels like to be sad. The young people Ambition has no worries..." Jiang Kan muttered, turned on the music, and listened for a few minutes.
"Well, the resentful and desolate style is enough, but it always feels like it's not very appropriate to the requirements of the plot. The positive and inspirational feeling is too strong, and it doesn't seem to be in line with their needs..." He smacked his lips and raised his eyes. Flipping upwards, my brain was spinning rapidly to carefully evaluate the correlation between the two.
"Forget it, let's play this song for now and listen to the next one first..."... Just like that, Jiang Kan listened to all the songs listed in the system carefully, but there was still nothing. Decide which song to choose.
"Then, let's listen to it again. They are not in a hurry anyway, and once I select it, the system will clear my memory of these songs. They are all excellent songs. It is really a waste to listen to them only once. ” It didn’t take long before I had listened to all these songs.
Because they were all classic songs that were produced very seriously, it made him feel a little bit embarrassed. It was like a homeboy whose stomach could only hold one meal suddenly encountered someone treating him, hot pot, barbecue, Western food... you can choose, but The feeling you get when you can only eat the same thing.
Throughout the afternoon, Jiang Kan was immersed in the ocean of these songs, going back and forth and listening to them many times, until the sun had set and Zhang Yu walked in with a lunch box.
But I heard him humming a strange melody. The lyrics were also very desolate, but they were inexplicably ear-catching?
"Snowflakes are falling, cold wind is blowing~" Jiang Kan hummed subconsciously following the melody remaining in his mind, his thoughts running at high speed, and he suddenly felt that this song had some magical brainwashing feeling?
"Just this one. It sounds particularly right to me. In addition to the tragedy, desolation and sorrow requested by Party A, there is also a little bit of joking and comedy in it. It's very rare. !" After listening to the last song, the corners of his mouth that had been drooping finally turned up, and he happily outlined a strange and rewarding smile.
After comparing carefully for a long time, Jiang Kan finally selected this song that made him subconsciously want to stop.
"Hey, our great composer Jiang Kan is closing his eyes and meditating again? Are you also contemplating a new work today?" Zhang Yu held a tray with two large ceramic lunch boxes inside and pushed it open carefully. The ward door slowly came in.
Both lunch boxes are quite large, which is very suitable for a big man like Jiang Kan. One of them is divided into two compartments, which contain Kung Pao Chicken and Shredded Ginger Pork respectively. The colors are colorful and very cute.
Another lunch box was filled with large white rice, and there was a small half bag of pickled mustard piled next to it, which looked even more appetizing.
These dishes are Jiang Kan's favorite, and the aroma caused his mouth to salivate crazily as soon as he entered the door.
"Ha, I'm really thinking about it. There's a new order from Yangcheng, for composing music for a movie..." Jiang Kan didn't say much. He first picked up the small bed table placed on the table next to him and put it next to him. Then he took the other person's tray with both hands and placed it firmly on it. The aroma of the food quickly spread to the tip of his nose, stimulating him so much that he wanted to start feasting immediately.
"Hey, those of you who are engaged in literary and artistic work have a greater sense of accomplishment! How many people watch a movie after it is released, at least tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people. If it is particularly good, it will continue to be circulated and known to the whole world... Doctors like us will never come into contact with more than a thousand patients in our lifetime. We all do obscure work. No matter how well we do, only the patients themselves know..." Zhang Yu habitually complained about his work. He praised Jiang Kan again, making the latter very embarrassed.
"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. None of the dishes in the intensive care unit today are what you like. Our doctor's cafeteria happens to have these two dishes. I thought they are your favorite food, so I called you. You Try it and see if you like the taste?" Listening to the other party talking about these high-end topics that ordinary people can't reach in their lifetime, Zhang Yu just smiled with some regret and got used to it, and began to introduce today's dishes to Jiang Kan. .
I got a little excited writing this chapter, and I accidentally wrote a little more, so I think you won’t mind.
