Inside the Xingyuan Entertainment Company building.
Jiang Yuan has just finished a series of promotional tours for the movie. Before the Spring Festival, Jiang Yuan was on vacation.
I just stayed at home in Shanghai for two days, and after thinking about it, I decided to come to the company.
It was also in the company's recording studio that he and Deng Ge were handling the post-production work of the music.
The content of the work is also The Princess’ latest comeback EP.
The preliminary recording work has been completed, and Jiang Yuan and Deng Ge have to start working on the mixing of the songs.
"Think of music as being played in a three-dimensional space, with so many tracks already recorded."
"What we are responsible for is to confirm the position and volume of each track to achieve the best listening effect..."
It was said that they were jointly responsible, but more of it was based on Deng Ge’s explanation to Jiang Yuan.
After all, before this, Jiang Yuan was involved in more post-production work that he could feel with his own ears.
This is something that Deng Ge has praised many times. There are few singers who are as sensitive as Jiang Yuan and can hear the difference between different versions with one ear.
As for The Princess' latest two songs this time, Jiang Yuan also wanted to try to see if he could achieve some musical effects through his own participation.
The choice of mixing will still have a relatively large impact on the final finished product.
"I have long thought that you are a good candidate to come and mix with me." After a brief explanation, Deng Ge couldn't help but said to Jiang Yuan with some emotion.
For example, when making albums in the past, Jiang Yuan would note the different musical effects he wanted for each song.
This is like knowing exactly what kind of images and filters you want in the later stage of the movie, which helped Deng Ge make a lot of choices in advance when mixing.
Just like the current mixing of The Princess' new EP, it is obviously the first time for Jiang Yuan to participate in such post-production work, which has indeed improved the mixing efficiency a lot.
"By the way, you said you were going to hold a special meeting for the new album, is it today?" After some time, Deng Ge asked Jiang Yuan.
"It's today, but the time is set for the evening." Jiang Yuan glanced at his watch and said.
After confirming that one of his New Year's plans was to produce a second English album, Jiang Yuan thought about it and simply took advantage of his free time this year to hold an album production meeting.
It’s not like I was in a hurry and wanted to determine the direction of the album production through one meeting.
I just want to advance some album production progress through this meeting.
At least some preliminary preparations for album production can be completed in advance to facilitate subsequent work.
"Is this time going to be like the last one, making a bigger album?" Deng Ge asked with interest.
Currently at Xingyuan Entertainment, Deng Ge's annual work targets are only met by Jiang Yuan.
Every time he completes the production of an album with Jiang Yuan, Deng Ge will feel a sense of accomplishment that his career has been complete.
After hearing the question asked by Deng Ge, Jiang Yuan also fell into thinking.
The album size asked by Deng Ge is actually the number of songs included in the album.
A regular official album usually has ten to twelve singles, which is already a very complete composition.
European and American majors, such as Jiang Yuan's last one, had nearly twenty singles, so Deng Ge asked this question.
After Jiang Yuan thought for a moment, he shook his head and said, "I haven't completely thought about it yet. Maybe I'll have some ideas later after the album meeting."
Generally speaking, Jiang Yuan has not yet fully figured out what style of album he wants to put together.
Naturally, I haven't thought about which singles to include in this album.
For example, the single plan for each month is purely based on the mood of that month.
Now that it's time for integration, we really need to think about it a little bit.
When Deng Ge heard this, he wanted to say something, but when he thought about it, when the album meeting started later, he would naturally be able to say everything he needed to say, so he didn't care about the extra time.
"It seems that the new variety show you participated in today is about to be broadcast. I saw a lot of billboards on the way here." Deng Gehua pulled up his phone and asked Jiang Yuan.
"Is there actually a billboard?" Jiang Yuan was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that "Travel" would spend so many promotional resources on a special episode.
"Yes, didn't you notice when you came here? There is a relatively large one at the intersection of our street. I wanted to take a picture when I passed by it before," Deng Ge replied.
Hearing what Deng Ge said, Jiang Yuan also took out his mobile phone and started checking it.
In the group chat of the "Fantasy Travel" program group that I joined before, there were a lot of messages today. Jiang Yuan was also @@, saying that he hoped to forward more official blog posts of the program group for publicity.
Looking through some chat records, Jiang Yuan did see the efforts made by the program team to promote this special episode, including the large-screen advertisements Deng Ge just mentioned, which were basically in the Magic City and the Imperial City.
Like the center of a big city, as well as some subway stations.
The number of screens projected is quite astonishing at first glance.
Even though there are several screens to make up one large screen, it can be seen how much the program team attaches importance to this promotion.
It should be a big expense, Jiang Yuan thought, and logged into his accounts on some social platforms, thinking about forwarding two more promotional messages.
At this point in time, the first feature film of the "Travel" special series has also been officially launched.
I had never watched a travel variety show like "Travel" before, and since I was participating in it myself, I was a little curious about how the show would be edited, so Jiang Yuan specifically searched for the show and clicked play.
"Are you going to watch that show?" Deng Ge finished the work at hand and followed Jiang Yuan.
"Get ready to take a look." When Jiang Yuan answered, the video had already started playing on the phone screen.
It has to be said that this time the special program is well-arranged, not only in the opening screen advertisement of the video software, but also in the first recommended position on the homepage of the software.
At the same time, the title of the first feature film is also very special. It is not the usual design of previous programs, but a concept short film specially edited by Jiang Yuan and others based on the film style of "Detective Chinatown".
"It's great. Sometimes when I watch this kind of program, I want to take part in it." Deng Ge looked on and couldn't help but let out a sigh.
Deng Ge was silent for two seconds, "Your question is a bit presumptuous. If someone had invited me, I would have participated long ago."
"That's right." Jiang Yuan nodded, thinking this was reasonable.
Even though Deng Ge has appeared at major award ceremonies a lot more times in the past two years, it doesn't look like he would be invited to travel variety shows.
"But is there any difference between this pure tourism variety show and the "World Song" you participated in before?" Deng Ge's sad mood came and went quickly, and he asked curiously.
"Well..." Jiang Yuan pondered for a moment, thought about it carefully, and then started to answer.
"It will definitely be like "World Song", which will be more free and have fewer camera positions."
"Sometimes I can leave the show crew and go out on my own." Jiang Yuan recalled that "World Song" is essentially a music variety show, so the performance part is the main feature.
But the variety show "Travel" is different. The main program content is supported by travel clips. It is normal to have more cameras accordingly.
But if you are traveling, obviously "World Songs" is more comfortable.
"But for games like "Fantasy Travel", some travel strategies will be prepared in advance, so there are pros and cons to each." Jiang Yuan made a simple comparison.
Hearing this, Deng Ge thought about it and shook his head, "Then I'm still not suitable for this kind of program."
"The more you participate, the more you get used to it." Jiang Yuan thought for a while and replied.
Up to now, I have basically adapted to the recording mode of variety shows and can behave more naturally under the camera.
After a rather cinematic opening, the opening scene is of He Jing receiving the task card in the hotel.
After watching how He Jing received the mission and headed to the airport, what happened next was what Jiang Yuan experienced personally.
But after it is edited and put on the show, there will still be some different feelings.
Jiang Yuan is already used to being under the camera, and seeing herself on the show is even less of a problem.
On the contrary, I feel that it is good to have a program to record the scenes at that time. After all, human memory is limited after all.
But what Jiang Yuan didn't expect was that the cut of him becoming a director was released on the show, and it actually looked quite interesting.
This is especially true after amplifying the expressions and actions of other people at the time and adding some music.
Jiang Yuan thought about it and glanced at Deng Ge's reaction beside him, and found that he was really happy to see it.
The main feature of the first issue of the special series happened to be Jiang Yuan's journey as a tour guide, and there was also a detective game interspersed in the middle.
At the same time, I look back at the journey of filming the movie. After editing, the entire journey looks very compact and informative.
For example, after Deng Ge saw half of it, he sighed and thought that this trip to Bangkok looked very rich.
"Do you think it is possible for our company to organize a travel variety show like this in the future, allowing all the artists under the company to participate?" After looking at it, Deng Ge also asked Jiang Yuan such a question.
"Are you afraid that you want to join in?" Jiang Yuan thought about it for a while and guessed Deng Ge's intention.
"If possible, of course it would be best." Deng Ge touched the beard on his chin.
This year Deng Ge seems to have taken an artistic route, growing a mustache and long hair.
It's just that Deng Ge's long hair is currently in the embarrassing stage of being half-short but not very long, which makes it a bit uninteresting.
"To say that there are not many artists in the company, strictly speaking, there should be none." Jiang Yuan thought for a while and said.
After all, he has now established a label, and all of his artists, such as Lu Qing and The Princess, have direct contracts with the label.
"Let's wait a few years, maybe we can do a slow life program like this."
Jiang Yuan also really thought about it and felt that by the time he started producing this type of program, he should be in a semi-retired state.
"That's pretty good." That's what Deng Ge said. Hearing that Jiang Yuan did have some ideas, he somewhat buried some expectations in his heart.
In the end, the two of them still couldn't watch the first feature film of "Travel in Flowers" together.
On the one hand, Jiang Yuan only brought his mobile phone, so the picture was indeed smaller, which made it a little uncomfortable to watch.
On the other hand, the length of the first episode of the special is too honest. It is nearly two and a half hours, which is longer than many movies.
After watching for a while, it was almost time for dinner.
Considering that there would be an album meeting later, Jiang Yuan and Deng Ge went to the company canteen together.
Although Xingyuan Entertainment has not had many artists, it is still fully equipped in all aspects.
When it was time to eat, there were many employees dining in the cafeteria.
After meeting Jiang Yuan, they all greeted him warmly, and some of them looked quite familiar to Jiang Yuan.
After careful identification, I found that many of them were members of bands or dance studios signed by themselves.
Considering that some songs in the album may require choreography and other work, some vocal and dance teachers were also present at this album meeting.
"It's usually a bit more deserted than it is now." Deng Ge said casually after ordering food at the window with Jiang Yuan.
"The standard of the company canteen is indeed not bad." Jiang Yuan nodded and sighed.
On the day "Travel" was launched, the number of online viewers reached a peak until dinner time in the evening.
Although it is Friday, it is also a working day, so many fans wait until this time to have time to watch the show.
At this point in time, some terms have already appeared on the hot search list.
For example, the cuts of the detective game, or Jiang Yuan’s performance as director, and even the little easter eggs about movie shooting revealed during the journey, these are all hotly discussed topics in the first issue.
Of course, the interaction between Jiang Yuan and Ye Xuanqi in the show was also edited by the program team, with some music and filters.
Many CP fans said that some of the clips looked like a love movie, but they still drank it hard.
The premiere of the special episode was quite successful, and it is still a great bonus for the pre-sale of the movie that started at the same time.
However, the results of the first day’s pre-sale will not be counted until settlement at 12 o’clock.
Prior to this, after Jiang Yuan had dinner, he came to the company's conference room for the first time in a long time. Several production teams had already arrived, ready to start the album meeting discussion.