Chapter 653: Adding layers of pressure
After reading the script of "In the Name of Love", Yu Dong wrote some of his own opinions in the blank space at the back.
These opinions mainly focused on the second half of the script. Yu Dong felt that Chen Weiwen arranged the conflicts in the second half too intensively and did not give the audience time to breathe.
In addition, Yu Dong also felt that the name "In the Name of Love" was a bit bad and too ordinary.
After writing his opinions, Yu Dong raised his head and looked under the podium. There were still ten minutes left before class ended. None of the students had completed their homework, and they were all rushing to catch up.
Yu Dong stretched out, holding a tea cup and looking at the students with a smile.
The gold arts performance major has very high requirements for literary literacy, which is already recognized in the industry.
Before, Yu Dong and the others were hesitant about whether to have such high requirements for the literary quality of performance majors, but several years of practice have proven that their approach is correct.
Although students will be more tired during this period, it does not affect their study in professional courses. On the contrary, the improvement of their literary literacy promotes their improvement in professional courses.
When students like Hu Jing, Yan Danchen, Liu Ye, and Qin Yi go out to film, the director will praise them. Although they have not graduated yet, their understanding of the script is better than that of ordinary actors.
Precisely because he saw the effect, Jin Yi is now determined to improve students' literary literacy.
In the past, only drama students had to rely on literature-related content in the art exam. Now, in the art exam of Jinyi, as long as they are from the drama department, there will be literature-related examinations.
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When the class bell rang, Yu Dong glanced at the audience. There were still people writing furiously, including two activists, Deng Xi and Zhao Ku.
"Hand in the paper. If it is not delivered to me within one minute, it will be considered as a waiver. The countdown starts now, 59, 58..."
This really worked. In less than fifty seconds, all twenty-three assignments were handed in.
Deng Chen was the last one to hand it in. He wrote while walking and kept counting in his mouth.
But maybe because he was nervous, he counted faster. When he finished counting sixty, less than fifty seconds had actually passed.
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After collecting his homework, Yu Dong just walked out of the classroom when he received a call from Yuliang.
During the phone call, Yuliang talked about two things. First, he briefly reported on the production progress of the escape game, and then talked about Jay Chou.
"Boss, the evaluation report on Jay Chou has been completed. I will ask Hu Hao to bring it to you this afternoon."
"Yeah." Yu Dong nodded and asked, "Can you tell me about the assessment opinions of all parties?"
"Not ideal." Yu Liang knew that Cheng Yanqiu and Yu Dongting were optimistic about Jay Chou, so he considered his words, "Including Zhou Jianhui and Wu Zongxian, they all think that Jay Chou is more suitable for behind the scenes. His image and singing skills are really not suitable for being an artist.
You have to debut with an identity. As for your singing skills, you can train them, but the image aspect is really difficult. Recently, fans have become more and more demanding about the image of singers."
"Image, what do Li Weisong and his two brothers think?" Yu Dong asked.
"The Li brothers are very sure of Jay Chou's talent, and they also said that they want Jay Chou to help their students write songs. However, their views on his debut are basically the same as those of Zhou Jianhui and Wu Zongxian. They are not optimistic."
In fact, Jay Chou wasn't ugly at this time, he was just a bit thinner, and his hairstyle didn't add any points, so he looked ordinary, far from the popular handsome singers nowadays.
Yu Dong nodded: "Since you are not optimistic about it, then don't let Deep Space Music make an album for him."
"Uh, oh, okay, I understand."
The person on the other end of the phone was a little surprised. He could tell that Cheng Yanqiu and Yu Dong were very optimistic about Jay Chou, otherwise they wouldn't have let Jay Chou sing "Rooftop" by himself.
Now that the content of the evaluation is so unfriendly to Jay Chou, I thought Yu Dong would be unhappy, but I didn't expect the boss to give up on Jay Chou so simply. It seems that the boss is still the boss, not controlled by his own preferences, and very rational.
But Yu Dong's subsequent words made Yu Li understand that his idea was completely wrong.
"Don't let Deep Space Music come out, reorganize Alpha Company, and then follow Alpha Company's path to release an album for Jay Chou. Make the album first, see how the quality is, and then consider publicity and distribution."
Yuliang blinked and said, "This is a good idea."
It is indeed a method. In this way, there is no need to have conflicts with Zhou Jianhui and others because of forcing Jay Chou to debut.
As for whether Jay Chou is suitable for debuting, I don't really care about it. He doesn't have any objection to such decisions that have no impact on the company's future.
Even if Jay Chou can't get up, it won't waste much resources, just sprinkle water.
The key is, as long as the boss is happy.
Originally, if I wanted to pursue deep space music, I would have been worried about Zhou Jianhui's objections.
When Zhou Jianhui took over Deep Space, he made a request and did not want the head office to interfere too much with his decision-making.
If Yu Dong still insists on letting Jay Chou debut when Zhou Jianhui and others do not think that Jay Chou is suitable for debuting, maybe Zhou Jianhui and others will compromise, but they will definitely not be happy in their hearts.
Now, if we reorganize Alpha and then go alone with Alpha to make Jay Chou's debut, it would be the best of both worlds.
"You go and notify Xiao Zhou and ask him to record a demo of ten or twenty songs in two months. If the quality is acceptable, he will release an album. To put it harshly, it will put a little pressure on him. Young people, don't
It’s hard to make progress if you put pressure on someone.”
Yuliang nodded and smiled: "I understand, boss."
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"Follow up, keep up, you're going to die... just hang up!"
Liu Genghong threw the controller away and was about to complain about Jay Chou when the cell phone on the table rang.
"We'll start again when I get back."
After saying this, Liu Genghong ran to answer the phone.
"Well, okay, okay, I understand, I will take him back to the company now."
After hanging up the phone, Liu Genghong ran over and pulled Jay Chou up, "Let's go back to the company."
"What's wrong?" Jay Chou was still holding the controller, thinking about the game. He died unjustly just now, and he still wanted to regain his face.
"The company has a new boss."
"Is it?"
There was a hint of surprise on Jay Chou's face. Ever since Alpha was acquired by Deep Space, the position of CEO has been vacant. During this period, Deep Space Music CEO Zhou Jianhui's assistant Chen Zhaoyun was in charge of Alpha's operations.
They had always thought that Chen Zhaoyun would be assigned to Alpha as the general manager in the future, but they did not expect that a new boss would arrive, which felt quite sudden.
"Let's go."
Liu Genghong changed his clothes, and the two of them went out towards the company together.
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When the two rushed to the company, other employees of the company had already arrived.
Alpha does not have many employees. Wu Zongxian and Liu Genghong are just agents with Alpha, and they have a cooperative relationship with Alpha.
Unlike Jay Chou, his relationship with Alpha or Deep Space is more complicated.
Jay Chou has two contracts with Shenkong, one is a labor contract and the other is an agency contract.
The new general manager is Huang Zongliang. He was a producer before and worked at Warner Bros. for a while. He is relatively young, only thirty-five years old, and appears to be more modest.
Alpha is a very small company. In the eyes of outsiders, this company is just an addition to Deep Space Company's entry into the Baodao music industry, acquired incidentally.
When everyone talked about this company before, they thought of Wu Zongxian, and then Liu Genghong. Now because of the song "Rooftop", Jay Chou's name will also come to mind.
After getting to know the employees, Huang Zongliang left Jay Chou alone.
Huang Zongliang looked at Jay Chou in front of him with a smile. Although he also thought that Jay Chou's image was not suitable for debuting as an artist, but now that Mr. Yu had spoken out, he regarded Jay Chou's matter as the company's main task in the next stage.
Yuliang called him and gave special instructions about Jay Chou.
The original words are: "Zong Liang, Alpha's platform is indeed not big, but there is still room. Your main task after taking over the company is to develop Jay Chou. After you go there, let him produce about 20 song demos within a month and a half.
, if the quality passes the standard, send him an album and speak harshly. Young people need to be put under some pressure to make progress, you know."
As soon as Huang Zongliang said this, he must resolutely implement it.
He patted Jay Chou on the shoulder and said with a smile: "Jay Chou, the company has decided to release a solo album for you."
Before Jay Chou's smile appeared on his face, Huang Zongliang continued: "But there is a condition. You need to produce thirty... no, thirty-five song demos within a month. If you can choose from them,
If you release songs that meet the quality and quantity standards, the company will release an album for you, can you do that?"
Jay Chou nodded: "Yeah."
Huang Zongliang did not expect Jay Chou's reaction to be so dull. He was neither particularly excited nor particularly panicked.
Not bad, quite calm.
What Yiliang told him was that it would take him one and a half months to make a demo of more than 20 songs. However, just to be on the safe side, Huang Zongliang increased the number and not only shortened the time by half a month, but also increased the number to 30.
Five songs.
What he didn't know was that the number Margin told him had already been increased.
"Well, you go out. Remember, you have one month to go, so you have to hurry up."
"Okay, Mr. Huang."
Nodding, Jay Chou turned around and walked out of the general manager's office. As soon as he closed the office door, he made a turnaround jump shot and pretended to hit the net with a three-pointer.
"middle!"
Jay Chou clenched his fists excitedly and shouted softly, but when he turned around, he saw Julie at the front desk looking at him blankly.
He changed into a cool look again, lowered his head and said, "Well, the new floor is very good."
After saying that, he walked past Julie with his pockets in his pockets.
Julie looked at Jay Chou's back strangely, then looked at the floor, and curled her lips and said: "Idiot, this floor has not been replaced."
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While Jay Chou was working day and night on thirty-five songs a month, Yu Dong looked at the classwork of the students in the 98 performance class with a headache on his face.
The title of the class assignment was "What if I became a big star", but the students wrote "What if I became a good person".
Twenty-three students, each wrote very noble things.
Some people write that if they become a big star, they will go to underdeveloped areas to donate money, do publicity, and help improve the education level of the areas.
Some wrote that they should help domestic brands and boost confidence in the country’s name.
Others, such as Deng Xian, wrote bigger and more empty words. He said that if he became a big star, he would promote peace around the world, prevent wars, and make sure that all those who are hungry would be fed.
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In fact, the reason why Yu Dong asked such a question was because he wanted them to interrogate their own hearts. If they became a star and encountered various difficulties and temptations, how would they deal with them.
Who would have thought that they all missed the topic and wrote so vaguely.
However, after seeing what they wrote, Yu Dong also felt that these young people were really cute. Although they wrote some illusory things, some real feelings could still be read in the content.
Yu Dong could even feel that they really thought so.
Yu Dong also wanted to believe that they did think so.
Human beings are very complex. They have a noble, unconventional, idealistic side, and a realist side full of copper odor.
Yu Dong believes that when they sit in class, holding paper and pen, what they are thinking about is indeed all living beings.
But Yu Dong also knows that when they really become big stars in the future, they will face all kinds of difficulties and temptations, and it will not be easy to keep their true intentions.
After thinking for a while, Yu Dong got up and found a file box with a plastic bag, and put all the twenty-three assignments into the file box.
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Yu Dong put the box into the bookcase, then stood up with a smile and prepared to go to the government affairs building.
Today is Teachers' Day, and there are no classes for half the afternoon. However, the school organized activities and prepared some daily necessities to be distributed to the teachers.
He said that the school was very generous this time and wanted to distribute two barrels of rapeseed oil and a bag of rice.
On his way to the government building, Yu Dong saw Bi Feiyu and his wife carrying supplies towards the apartment with difficulty.
Yu Dong was startled when he saw the oil barrels in their hands, "Hey, darling, two such big barrels?"
When he heard about hair oil, he thought it was a four- to five-liter barrel. He didn't expect it to be so big, it must be ten liters.
"Isn't that right? A barrel is twenty pounds. Fu Jing and I have a total of four barrels of oil and two bags of rice. There is still one trip left. Your family also has two workers. How many trips do you have to make?"
Yu Dong curled his lips and said with a smile: "Lao Bi, as the saying goes, a gentleman is born with nothing different, and he is good at fake things. Isn't the cart at Uncle Zhou's always hanging somewhere? You don't know how to use it."
When Bi Feiyu heard this, he quickly put down the oil and rice, "Why did I forget about this? Fu Jing, leave it alone, I'll go get the cart with him."
After saying that, he went up and poked Yu Dong: "It's a good thing you came, otherwise my running behind would have been in vain."
Yu Dong smiled and said, "I've reminded you not once or twice."
Bi Feiyu shook his head and sighed, "It's also my fault that I've trained my body so well that I don't think about taking chances. On the contrary, it's weaklings like you who always think about taking chances.
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"Lao Bi, in the process of human evolution, the main thing that evolves is the brain. Individuals like you who refuse to evolve are really an obstacle to the evolution of the species."
"Except for members, unless genes mutate, individuals have no impact on evolution."
Fu Jing watched Yu Dong and Bi Feiyu quarreling as they walked towards the school gate, and smiled. The scene in front of her suddenly reminded her of the first time she came to Jinyi a few years ago. At that time, she and Bi Feiyu
When Feiyu moved, Yu Dong and Bi Feiyu went to the reception room to pick up the pallet truck.
Chapter completed!