For Chu Xuan and Liu Yifei, writing and performing the plot based on Zhou Jielun's music was like filming a drama version of the MV. They didn't have any objections, but felt a little fresh.
However, TV dramas have the filming style and rhythm of TV dramas. A certain plot is performed completely according to the music nodes. Then there is no way to edit it in the later stage. Once the editing is done, the music will be messed up. Therefore, Jielun must make concessions in the music and make slight changes to the music.
To fit the plot, the couple's performance can fit the music better.
Since Zhou Jielun agrees, the basic creative consensus has been reached.
Then, next, we can talk about the storytelling aspect of music.
Chu Xuan looked at Zhou Jielun and said: "You have also read the outline of the story. It is obviously an urban idol drama, and the focus is on the city."
Zhou Jielun nodded slightly and continued to listen to what Chu Xuan said.
"For the songs in your album, let me first talk about our initial creative inspiration." Chu Xuan said.
"Say." Zhou Jielun became interested.
Chu Xuan said: "The story takes characters as the core, and then the characters show the plot. Regarding the two songs "Uncle Jock" and "Mr. Magic" in your album, I have an idea for character design."
"What do you think?" Zhou Jielun raised the corner of his mouth.
These two songs are a bit special in his album. "Uncle Jock" was the inspiration he found from the character "Joker" after watching the movie "The Dark Knight".
"Uncle Jock" sounds cheerful and dynamic, but in fact it is a tragedy. It mainly reflects the loneliness, loneliness, self-deprecation and dissatisfaction with life in the spiritual world of "Joker".
"Mr. Magic" was inspired by "Uncle Jock" and can be regarded as the sequel to "Uncle Jock".
Completely opposite to the spiritual core of "Uncle Jock", "Mr. Magic" expresses true joy, relaxation, and a sunny outlook on life. I hope this is the core.
How do these two songs fit into urban idol dramas?
He didn't know, but he was curious about Chu Xuan's thoughts.
"In the rough outline of the story, the male protagonist hasn't been named yet. I think the male protagonist can be called Jiao Ke." Chu Xuan said.
In "Uncle Jock", the male protagonist is called Jock?... Zhou Jielun smiled: "Interesting."
Hearing what Chu Xuan said, his interest increased to a higher level.
"Jock is terminally ill and his time is short. Such people are lonely and lonely."
"At the same time, there is a little girl who is also suffering from a terminal illness and is scared of her physical condition. The point is that this little girl calls Jock Uncle Jock."
"Oh, here's the question." Zhou Jielun was very interested.
"In order to make the little girl happy, the male protagonist Jock pretends to be a clown to please her. Jock is happy when the little girl is happy. Three things are reflected here."
"One is the lonely and lonely heart of the male protagonist, who has to rely on pleasing the little girl to make him happy;"
"One is to add a sense of tragedy to the character. A cancer patient comforts another cancer patient, which is a tragedy in itself;"
"One is a positive and inspirational emotional expression presented by tragedy. Jock is suffering from cancer, but he is still willing to make the little girl happy. The spiritual value conveyed is very positive."
Zhou Jielun really didn't expect that Chu Xuan could present his song "Uncle Jock" with such a character design, and the scene described was very suitable for the loneliness and tragedy that the song wanted to express, and it also conveyed some of it.
Positive and beautiful spiritual values.
The more he listened, the more excited he became. He moved his body to a more comfortable sitting position and said, "Not bad, not bad, but how should we explain the word 'magician' in the song?"
There is a core lyric in "Uncle Jock": Magic, I hate you for taking away my business.
When he wrote this lyric, he took the "Joker" in "Batman" as his perspective and hated those who bullied the "Joker". These people he called "magicians".
Why "magician"? Because some people in society always have various ways to bully the people at the bottom like magic.
So in this song, the clown is the good guy and the magician is the villain.
Since Chu Xuan can design the male protagonist as a "clown" and it fits the artistic conception of the song, then Chu Xuan must have his own in-depth interpretation of the song and must also have a design for the "magician".
He was extremely curious about this.
"The little girl has a father who is a magician. In order to earn medical expenses for his daughter, the father often performs outside."
"Once when he came home, he saw Jock dressing up as a clown to make his daughter happy. This made him very dissatisfied. He thought Jock had robbed his baby, so he performed magic tricks to please his daughter and completely divert her daughter's attention."
"This was a deep blow to Jock, because the little girl was the only light in Jock's short life, but the little girl's father took this light away from him."
"Jock resented his father for this and hated his father's career as a magician."
Zhou Jielun stroked his palm and praised Chu Xuan: "Your creative ability is so strong, full of sense of picture and character."
Chen Zhenrong and the two businessmen nodded repeatedly. In just two days, they were able to interpret a song in such an in-depth and dramatic way. It not only fit the superficial meaning of the song's lyrics, but also perfectly fit the spirit of the song.
Core, this creative ability is not simple.
"It's not over yet." Chu Xuan said.
Not over yet?... Zhou Jielun raised his eyebrows, showing even higher interest.
"There is a philosophical saying with very practical significance, which is that people tend to live their lives as the person they hate the most." Chu Xuan said.
Zhou Jielun and Chen Zhenrong were slightly startled, not knowing the deep meaning of Chu Xuan's words.
Just listen to Chu Xuan say: "So, the male protagonist Jiao has a career in what he thinks is the virtual world..."
Zhou Jielun's heart suddenly palpitated, and he understood the profound meaning of Chu Xuan, and he and Chu Xuan said in unison: "Magician."
Chu Xuan smiled and nodded: "Take advantage of the situation to introduce the identity and artistic conception represented by the song "Mr. Magic"."
Zhou Jielun spread his hands in excitement and looked at Chen Zhenrong: "It exploded, it really exploded."
Chen Zhenrong didn't understand Zhou Jielun's excitement. Maybe it was because his artistic skills were not in place and he couldn't hear what was "exploding".
Wang Jinhua and Liu Xiaoli also turned their heads at the desk, attracted by their current creative discussions.
Liu Yi took a sip of water and explained: "From the perspective of the male protagonist Jiao Ke, he is terminally ill and waiting to die. The meaning of life is to make the little girl happy only then he is satisfied. The characteristic here is that the male protagonist is...
Before reaching the end of your life, get used to pleasing others and get happiness from it.”
"The little girl's father is a magician, and magic performances are more pleasing to people than him playing a clown. Although he hates magicians because of this, under the unscrupulous inner guidance of the 'virtual world', he chose his job that made him
The most hated profession.”
"Why choose a magician?"
"First, the magician makes people happier when they are recognized by the male protagonist."
"Second, the purpose of the male protagonist entering the 'virtual world' in his limited life is to find happiness."
"Third, the male protagonist's lonely heart makes him use pleasing others as a way to gain happiness."
Wang Jinhua understood and said: "The male protagonist Jock is like a comedian, like a comedy actor. He looks happy on stage, but in private he is lonely, lonely and depressed."
"Yes, that's the character." Chu Xuan nodded.
Liu Yi continued: "From the perspective of these two songs, the male protagonist is "Uncle Jock" in his world, a tragic figure and a clown like a lonely patient, while in the 'virtual world' he is "Magic"
"Mr." is such a character who is unscrupulous, unscrupulous, and strives to convey happiness in an attempt to make himself happy."
"Such a two-sided character conforms to the distinction between reality and fiction, fits the completely opposite artistic conception of the two songs, and can make the audience pity, sympathize, and resonate, and can make the character very full."
"It has also achieved a philosophical thought that Chu Xuan just said: living like the person you hate the most seems to be a compromise with society, and it is also a way to obtain happiness."
Zhou Jielun couldn't sit still anymore and couldn't help but stand up.
After he stood up, he saw that everyone else was still sitting, and he sat down again with emotion: "Many people say that I am a genius, but I think you are the geniuses. Your creative ability is so strong!"
Zhou Jielun said again that "the creative ability is too strong", but in fact he did not have more words to express his inner excitement and praise for Chu Xuan and Liu Yi.
He never thought that two songs composed casually, which in his mind were far incomparable to "Daoxiang" and "Lanting Preface", would have such profound connotations in just two days.
Just hearing what they said made him very fond of the male protagonist Jock, and he also firmly believed that the audience and fans would like such a character very much.
Such a character is simply full of strong personal charm of realistic magic in a tragic tone.
Such a character is also brand new and innovative. At least to his knowledge, there has never been such a character in urban dramas in the entire Asian market.
"This is art." Zhou Jielun highly praised it and expressed his inner excitement to Chen Zhenrong without any concealment.
Since he started the national style trend, he likes such things with artistic conception and profound expression. But such things are concentrated in one character, and one character can highlight the pros and cons of the different moods of his two songs. This
How can you make him not love you?
"To be precise, this should be the art of combining music with character plots. Without your songs, we would not have been able to come up with such a character design and such an artistic expression with such a spiritual core." Chu Xuan said.
"You are so amazing." Chen Zhenrong exclaimed: "It's hard to imagine that this is what can be achieved with two pieces of music in two days. Just the design of the male protagonist alone, I dare say, beats Baodao and the South Korean idol drama One Hundred Streets
, their character design has no connotation at all, it’s all bloody.”
Everyone smiled. For Yu Chuxuan and Liu Yifei, these words came from the mouth of Chen Zhenrong, a senior agent from Baodao, which gave them a sense of honor.
Wang Jinhua, Liu Xiaoli, and Lin Xiaoya are equally pleased. Don't convince people with capital, don't convince people with resources, but convince people with professionalism, artistry, and creativity. Isn't this the core orientation that cultural enterprises should have?
This is the true heritage of the company and its cultural heritage.
"The male protagonist is a magician and the female protagonist is a star, so how do they get together?" Liu Xiaoli asked. She didn't want to interfere with their communication, but listening to their discussion made her very interested.
Liu Yifei turned to look at her mother and said with a smile: "One day, the heroine was depressed because her career was suppressed. She was casually walking on the street and saw the hero's street magic performance. The hero was a novice magician and accidentally exposed his flaw.
The onlookers were dismissive, but the heroine was the only one who was amused."
"For the male protagonist, in reality he takes pleasure in pleasing the little girl. The innocent smile of the little girl satisfies the spiritual needs of the male protagonist."
"So, the disdain of the onlookers, coupled with the heroine's smile, made the hero see the light. This was also the beginning of the fate between the hero and heroine."
Zhou Jielun patted the sofa: "Reality and virtuality echo back and forth!"
He crossed his legs and said, "This is good."
He spread his hands and said, "I'm convinced. The character design and plot design are perfect."
I temporarily put aside the album and concert matters and rushed to the capital. This trip was indeed not in vain.
Because the other party has such a serious and in-depth interpretation of his two songs, as well as the very clever and innovative character and plot design, he doesn't need to hear the ideas for other songs, and he is now willing to cooperate.
Wang Jinhua also praised at this moment: "This is the first time that an urban idol drama can show artistry."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Indeed." Chen Zhenrong smiled and nodded.
Liu Yi said: "Our Chinese film and television dramas must pay attention to a spiritual core or a theme idea. This core and idea is either placed in the story or on the characters. This is the expression of Chinese film and television culture.
."
"Just like "Struggle", the core is placed in the story, expressing that young people must have the courage to pursue their ideals and treat adolescent love correctly."
"Now the core of "My Love from the Star" is placed on the male and female protagonists. One is facing death and the other is facing social injustice. They are in urgent need of correct spiritual guidance to exude positive energy."
"This reflects the many people in our real society who also have urgent spiritual needs."
"Then, through the model of the male and female protagonists being each other's white moonlight, and a venting method of artistic processing based on realistic magical colors, it meets the needs of the audience. The encouragement and mutual encouragement of the male and female protagonists and their aspirations towards the sun convey the emotional value of correct guidance."
"This is what I think is the correct way to open an idol drama that belongs to China."
"Well said." Wang Jinhua agreed.
"Teacher Liu and I share the same philosophy," Zhou Jielun said.
He found that he had a lot of artistic resonance with Chu Xuan, Liu Yifei, and Liu Yi.
There are many people with similar interests and few like-minded people. It is exciting for him to meet people with similar artistic concepts.
"Is this a definition of Chinese idol dramas?" Chen Zhenrong said.
"I don't know whether to define it or not. It depends on the market." Liu Yifei shook her head: "But, our film "My Love from the Star" has such a story design model, if it is put on the market, it will definitely break some audiences.
For the understanding of idol dramas, this kind of story is groundbreaking."
Everyone nodded in agreement. As for the current character design and some story design, compared with those idol dramas on the market, not only the character conception but also the story conception between the two parties immediately set the standard.
From Zhou Jielun's point of view, the in-depth integration of the album's music and the TV series has great potential.
Of course, they must praise again that the creative ability of this bright era is really strong.
They don’t know if other companies have this ability, but they probably would be repelled when they hear the request to combine music with the plot. After all, this is something that has never happened before in the domestic market.
Liu Yifei put down her legs, took a sip of tea from the cup and then crossed her legs again. Their initial creative inspiration was continuously praised by Zhou Jielun. She was very happy: "In addition to these two songs, we also have some of your other songs.
Consider.”
Zhou Jielun clasped his hands and put them on his lap: "I would like to hear the details."
Liu Yifei leaned slightly to the right, put her right elbow on the armrest of the sofa on the right, looked at Zhou Jielun and said, "There are several songs in your album that we think would be better treated with special plots."
"Referring to "The Condor" and "The Immortal Sword", many viewers think of Yang Guo and Xiao Longnu as they sleep and fly together when they hear "The World is Unparalleled", and think of Li Xiaoyao and Zhao Ling'er burning with desire when they hear "Slaying the Wolf"."
"This is because either the plot is what the audience wants to see the most, or the plot is difficult for the audience to understand. In short, it is a plot that impresses the audience, and it will trigger corresponding associations when hearing the song."
Zhou Jielun nodded and listened to the following.
"From this perspective, we believe that "Time Machine" can be used as the theme song of this drama. The male protagonist travels through a game device. Isn't this game device equivalent to a time machine?"
"Oh, not bad."
Zhou Jielun touched his chin, this song is indeed very suitable for the setting of the male protagonist.
"In order to enhance the audience's memory, this song is played every time the male protagonist travels through time. The audience will not be able to remember it deeply even if they don't want to."
"As soon as the music starts, Mr. Chu will travel through time."
Faced with Zhou Jielun's joke, Chu Xuan and everyone smiled slightly.
"There is also a song called "Preface to Orchid Pavilion". This Chinese style song is a bit weird to put in an urban drama."
"It's all Fang Wenshan's fault. He didn't write this song earlier and later. He wrote it right when he released this album. He had no choice but to shoehorn it in."
Zhou Jielun talked about Fang Wenshan through the air conditioner, which made everyone present amused and couldn't help but laugh.
"We had an idea to do a drama within a drama. I am the star in the drama. Then I can make a gorgeous appearance in a costume version along with the soundtrack of "Lanting Preface" and appear in a costume drama."
"good idea."
Zhou Jielun looked at Chen Zhenrong, and they nodded to each other.
If "Uncle Jock" and "Mr. Magic" are relatively special songs in the album, then "Lanting Preface" is even more out of place. A Chinese style song appears among a bunch of modern urban pop music. He himself often teases Fang Wenshan for writing this song.
The song was written at the wrong time.
But after listening to Liu Yifei's idea of a drama within a drama, his eyes lit up with this creativity.
If "Lanting Preface" appeared in an urban drama, it would obviously be a drama, but if it appeared in the costume plot of the urban drama version, wouldn't this problem of incompatibility be solved?
Liu Yifei's ancient costume? That is recognized as the "fairy sister".
Let Liu Yifei appear in ancient costume with "Lanting Preface", and now he has some stunning visuals.
"There is also a song "Dragon Knight". The style of this song is very passionate, but the lyrics are not very modern. We thought it would be better to focus on the passionate melody, as the male protagonist saves the female protagonist's BGM."
"BGM of the male protagonist rescuing the female protagonist?"
Zhou Jielun looked at Chu Xuan with a smile in his eyes, wondering what the hero meant by saving the heroine.
Speaking of this, Liu Yi spoke with interest without waiting for Chu Xuan to explain: "There is a line in the chorus of your "Dragon Knight": I resolutely break through this catastrophe, whoever is hunted and bleeds in this world, I
But only to save your innocence."
"As soon as I heard this while listening to the song, a picture immediately came to my mind."
"As the heroine, Sissi was deceived into the hotel by Capital on the pretense of discussing resources in the hotel. Capital was prepared to bully Sissi and try to create unspoken rules."
"Chu Xuan, as the male protagonist, heard the news, got into his car and drove at high speed on the road. Accompanied by the passionate melody of the song, he rushed into the hotel to fight with the capital's bodyguards. He fought all the way to the door of the room, knocked on the door and kicked him.
Fei Capital rescued the heroine."
After finishing her words, Liu Xiaoli looked at Chu Xuan happily and said: "Don't talk about the drama, he can definitely do it in reality. The scene imagined by Teacher Liu is very real."
"Hahaha..." Everyone laughed. The scene of the mother-in-law teasing her son-in-law was full of fun. Everyone looked at Chu Xuan with a joking look.
Chu Xuan covered his face and expressed a little embarrassment, and changed the subject to break his embarrassment: "These three songs are special plots, as the BGM of a specific plot. As for "Daoxiang", "The Promised Happiness" and other songs, they are integrated into
The male and female protagonists are very suitable in the main storyline of the relationship."
Liu Yifei nodded, took over the conversation and said: "So we have initially planned three directions for your album to be integrated into the TV series. The first part is to shape the male protagonist, the second part is to deal with specific plots, and the third part is to integrate with the emotional line.
."
Jay Chou's album contains many different types of music. It is really difficult to connect all the different types of music with a story.
After two days of discussion between her, Chu Xuan and the teachers, they came up with a plan to split the music album into three major parts and integrate it into the plot in three different ways.
Although it is a different method, it is closely related to the characters and the main plot line, and it does not deviate from Zhou Jielun's purpose of making the music album into a coherent story.
"It's amazing, really." Zhou Jielun sighed: "I thought about the results of many kinds of fusion before coming here, but I never thought about your creative design that is so unique and fits the music. This far exceeded my expectations.
I think this is the best way I can think of to artistically combine music and TV dramas."
In his opinion, Chu Xuan, Liu Yifei, and Liu Yi respect his music, otherwise they would not have such a deep understanding, take it seriously and come up with three highly feasible plans.
While respecting his music, he can also attach the essence of the music to the characters, making the characters have connotation and depth, as well as philosophical thinking based on real society.
What surprised him the most were the "clown" and the "magician".
He knew that Chu Xuan's acting skills were very good and that he was an acting genius who could create a three-act system, but his performance level was not something he could evaluate.
In his eyes, if the duality of "clown" and "magician" can be performed in the image of Chu Xuan, then this character will be really amazing.
Liu Yifei didn't go into details about the heroine's character, but he thought it was definitely not bad.
Coupled with the integration of his music, he is confident that this will be a win-win cooperation situation for everyone.
"This drama may become a hit, or even hit the whole of Asia." He suddenly had this idea.
Seeing that Zhou Jielun had no objection, Chu Xuan said: "You are also pressed for time and have to prepare for the concert, so let's seize the time to talk in detail in the next two days and concrete these three directions of integration, so that we can work on the script, and then we can talk about it
How about the cooperation details?"
Zhou Jielun, Chen Zhenrong and the two businessmen looked at each other and saw that they had no objections to the creative direction, so they smiled and said: "No problem, your sincerity is so great that I am very confident in this cooperation and can work with you."
It is also an honor for me to collaborate, and it will definitely be a pleasure during the creative process."
Seeing how cheerful he was, Liu Yifei also readily invited him: "Then let's go have a meal, and we can start chatting in detail after the meal."
"Okay." Zhou Jielun agreed happily.
Just like that, Chu Xuan, Liu Yifei and Liu Yi took Zhou Jielun and his entourage to the hotel for dinner.
Liu Xiaoli and Wang Jinhua did not go. The cooperation between young people is left to them to talk about, and they can create sparks in art.
However, at Liu Xiaoli's place, seeing how the two parties talked so happily and passionately, there should be no problem with the cooperation. The idea of her daughter becoming a producer was finally settled. She couldn't help but said: "It looks like she is really going to ask for leave for Sissy."
Wang Jinhua glanced at her: "We have just proposed. How wonderful it would be to let these two guys immerse themselves in the career they love and happily go to the marriage hall together."
The two sisters looked at each other, smiled, and sincerely sent blessings to the couple.
