During this week, Sun Quan was basically in a completely relaxed state at home. He didn't care about the company or studio, nor did he think about the new book.
If his two sons weren't still too young, he would have wanted to take advantage of this rare free time to take his wife and children on a trip.
Unfortunately, my sons are still too young.
He took advantage of this time to spend most of the day with his wife and children.
Accompany Yuan Shuiqing to push the stroller and take the child for a walk in the community; accompany Yuan Shuiqing to change the child's diaper or make milk powder; sometimes when the mood strikes, I will drive to the vegetable market to buy some fresh ingredients and come back to cook some for everyone.
Dishes, etc.
When he has nothing to do at night, he will play with his wife and children on the bed for hours. Occasionally he will take out his mobile phone and look for one or two recent new books on Qidian.
My little life was really enjoyable.
If he hadn't thought about how young he was, only 26 years old, he would have thought that he would just spend the rest of his life like this, since he wouldn't be short of money anyway.
But he is still too young.
He has not yet reached the age of 30. It is not appropriate to retire at home so early and take care of his old age. Therefore, during the week he rested, he still thought about having a good rest, thinking about new books, and then starting a new book.
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Now, a week has passed, and he feels that he has almost rested.
That night, he stopped spending time with his wife and children and came to the study alone.
Boil water and make tea while turning on the computer.
I'm already thinking about the new book in my mind.
This time, he wanted to write another book with urban themes.
Regarding the subject type, he didn't hesitate much and made up his mind.
It’s not like when I was preparing for the previous few books, I struggled back and forth.
This is what he thinks: If he wants to sell game adaptation rights, the new book will definitely be more suitable for fantasy or fairy tales. As long as these two types of works are popular enough and have a decent reputation, with his current reputation, he can sell game adaptation rights.
The difficulty is very low.
And he also knows that in a year or two, when Internet IPs become popular, it shouldn't be difficult to sell the game adaptation rights of one of his books for tens of millions.
But now he has his own film and television company, so when he opens a new book, his first consideration is no longer whether it is suitable for game adaptation.
It’s about whether it’s suitable to be adapted into a film or television series.
Just like the few books he wrote after his rebirth, "My Decathlon", "The Ring of the Immortal Dragon", "The God-Slaying Sword in the Cloud" and "The Last Wish of the Dead", in terms of excitement, "The Last Wish of the Dead" is not like this
One of the most wonderful books among them.
But when he cooperated with Xue Zihan, Wang Zheng and others to start Xianyu Film and Television, his first choice was "The Last Wish of the Dead".
Why?
Isn't it because the story of "Dead Man's Last Wish" takes place in a modern city, so it is the least difficult to adapt it into a web drama?
yes!
"My Decathlon" is also a story that takes place in a modern city.
In terms of theme type, it is similar to "The Last Wish of the Dead".
But this involves the excitement of the story and some other issues.
In short, in modern society, it is definitely the least difficult to start shooting urban-type film and television dramas.
In comparison, the difficulty of shooting and post-production in a fantasy world where the background world is completely imaginary, or a world of fairy tales, is definitely much greater.
Therefore, in order to make future adaptations more difficult, he plans to write urban themes in his new book.
The supernatural theme seems very suitable. After all, "The Last Wish of the Dead" he just finished is on the Qidian City channel, but it is an out-and-out supernatural theme.
Therefore, he already has experience writing works with supernatural themes.
But this idea flashed in his mind and he gave it up.
There are three reasons.
First, he had just finished writing the story of "The Last Wish of the Dead". In a short period of time, he did not have much inspiration related to the supernatural. If he forced it to write, he would probably write a work with a reputation that is not as good as "The Last Wish of the Dead". That is not
What he wants.
Secondly, during the writing of "The Last Wish of the Dead", his emotions were suppressed.
What I often dream about are nightmares. I think about it every day and dream about it at night!
He obviously lived a happy life, but during the period when he was writing "The Last Wish of the Dead", when it was serious, he almost wrote himself into depression.
He didn't want to go through this experience again in a short time.
The third thing is...
His Salted Fish Film and Television is his first venture into the film and television drama market. He feels that he should try a few more genres. If he shoots two supernatural dramas in a row, he is afraid that Salted Fish Film and Television will form a fixed impression in the minds of the audience - he thinks that Salted Fish Film and Television
It is a film and television company that specializes in producing supernatural dramas.
He does not want Xianyu Film and Television to be labeled as such in the minds of the audience.
Just like when he writes online articles, he doesn't want to be labeled by readers as a certain type.
He has seen this happen too many times.
Many authors are vaguely stereotyped by readers after writing works on a certain theme continuously, such as The Great God: Linhai.
Because he has written several football-themed works in succession, this great master gives most readers the impression that he writes about football.
Once this impression is formed, it's over! Every time Linhai opens a new book and writes about football, that's fine. Readers who like football articles will be very interested.
But whenever Linhai wants to change it and write about some specific subject.
Most readers will lack interest and even click to read a chapter.
Under such circumstances, one can imagine how difficult it would be for Linhai to switch to writing about other subjects.
Sun Quan has seen many similar authors.
However, there are really only a handful of authors who are stereotyped by readers and can successfully transform in the end.
Sun Quan believes that this kind of thing is not limited to the Internet literary circle, but also happens in the film and television industry.
For example, movies about Mr. Xu.
In the minds of many movie fans, Xu's martial arts films are great. In addition, Xu's other types of movies have almost been booked.
Also like an actor.
Some of the top action actors in the entertainment industry, if one day they don't want to work too hard to shoot action scenes, but want to shoot some relaxing literary dramas and make money easily, the results will often be tragic.
This is the fate of being stereotyped by readers and viewers.
Xianyu Film and Television is entering the film and television industry for the first time, and Sun Quan naturally does not want to be labeled as a supernatural drama company by the audience.
But if you don't shoot supernatural dramas, many other themes are very difficult to shoot and produce. He feels that they are not suitable for the new Xianyu Film and Television.
He didn't want to raise the difficulty level too high for the newly born Xianyu Film and Television.
Therefore, the idea of writing a pure new urban book popped into his mind.
He wants to wait until the next two seasons of "Dead Man's Last Wish" are finished filming, and then film a pure urban drama to continue to train the newly born Xianyu Film and Television.
Just like when he first started learning to write online articles, he always gave himself a few years to practice writing.
Before you have mastered your writing skills, you will often die miserably if you try some difficult subjects rashly.
To put it simply, he copied his experience and insights from online writing into the film and television industry.
He feels that these two industries are both content industries and have things in common in many aspects.
only……
The scope of urban themes is very wide. On Qidian Chinese website, urban themes have always been a big category. Under this big category, there are actually many subdivided categories.
For example, the enduring urban rebirth literature.
Such as urban superpowers.
For example, urban articles about golden fingers or golden thighs.
For example, various professional articles, such as medical articles, official articles, Feng Shui secret art articles, teacher articles, etc.
In short, there are too many subcategories that can be written about urban themes.
For a while, Sun Quan really couldn't decide which subcategory of urban writing to write. A pot of tea had already been brewed, a cigar had been smoked, and a blank document on the computer had been created, but he was still undecided.
Every time he chooses a new book topic - he always hesitates for a long time.
This time is no exception.
He wanted to write workplace articles, but because he had little workplace experience before and after his rebirth, he did not have the confidence to write a new book of this type.
If I really want to write, I will reluctantly do so, and I guess I can only write professional articles about chefs as a profession, or about hotel management.
But he doesn't really want to write this type of work.
Because he feels that the profession of chef is still a bit niche. Although he studied this major in college, after his rebirth, he also opened a 99 Braised Chicken and even turned the original small shop into a large company with a market value of hundreds of millions.
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But he himself has no experience of working in a large or small hotel.
Therefore, he was not sure that he could write down some details of this industry.
He was reluctant to write something that he was not sure he could write.
In front of the computer.
Sun Quan picked up the tea cup and took another sip casually, still thinking about the subject of the new book.
What subject matter is the new book about? Is it easy to get results and is it suitable to be adapted into an online drama or TV series?
He feels that if everything goes well, after the "Dead Man's Last Wish" trilogy is completed and aired, his Xianyu Film and Television will have enough qualifications to start filming a serious TV series.
His original intention when he decided to open a film and television company was not to keep filming online dramas.
If you can shoot serious TV series that can be broadcast on major TV stations, who would want to keep shooting web series?
After all, serious TV dramas can not only be broadcast on major TV stations, but also online like online dramas, targeting a much larger audience.
so……
What is the subject of the new book?
Urban love?
TV series with this theme are very popular, and everyone from teenagers to people in their 50s, 60s, and even 70s and 80s love to watch them.
And the experience of love...
His grandson was not rich in this life, but was very rich before rebirth.
Therefore, it would be quite interesting to film an urban romance drama.
Although the possibility of a big explosion is low, the possibility of a big attack is also low.
Suitable for practicing film and television skills.
Thinking this way, Sun Quan wanted to write about this subject.
But there is still a problem - although urban love TV series have a relatively large audience, on Qidian Boys Channel... there is not much market for urban love online articles.
At least, in his memory, the pure love-related online articles on Qidian Men’s Channel have never been very popular.
Here, readers, who are mainly men, prefer to read fantasy, fairy tales and other more passionate works. Even if they are not passionate enough, everyone is accustomed to reading upgraded works.
Even if it's an urban novel, readers generally prefer to see the kind of works in which the male protagonist continues to grow and is constantly upgrading.
It is not the kind of work that is full of love and love.
This aspect is very different from the style of works on the girls’ channel.
This is also the main reason why the film and television dramas adapted from the original time and space girls' channel have become popular frequently, while the film and television dramas adapted from the works of the boys' channel have been popular one after another, and most of them have failed to hit the market.
In short, works on girls' channels are naturally more suitable for adaptation into film and television dramas.
Because most of the works written by female fans have love as the main theme.
This aspect is completely different from the works of male videos.
Time passes little by little.
In front of the computer, Sun Quan was still meditating.
Is it necessary to upgrade Qidian Men’s urban works?
He had a very certain answer in his heart - no!
As far as he knew, on the Qidian male channel, there had been several great masters who became famous without writing upgrade articles.
For example, the old goose who wrote "My Celebrity Girlfriend".
The book "My Celebrity Girlfriend" has no elements of an updated novel throughout. He followed that book from beginning to end and felt that the style was very different from other works on male videos.
The whole book is actually about the male and female protagonists falling in love.
The heroine is a popular star and very beautiful, while the male protagonist is really ordinary. Not only does he look ordinary, but he also has an ordinary career.
But because the description of love is so delicate and beautiful, people can't stop reading it.
correct.
The film and television adaptation rights for Lao Goose's "My Celebrity Girlfriend" are currently in the hands of his Salted Fish Studio.
In the future, his Xianyu Film and Television may actually be able to produce this drama.
but now……
He thought about it carefully, shook his head slightly, and felt that it was not the time to invest in this drama.
The main reason lies in the choice of actors.
Because he had read the entire book "My Celebrity Girlfriend", he knew very well what the selling point of the book was - the love between the male and female protagonists.
Such a story is written in words, because Lao Goose's writing style is delicate enough and the love part is described beautifully enough, making people yearn for and heart-warming, so the readers can be immersed in the story and unable to stop.
But if it is made into a film and television series.
Sun Quan found it very difficult.
First of all... it is extremely difficult to choose an actress who is beautiful enough, has good enough acting skills, and can perfectly restore the image of the heroine in the original work.
Secondly, it is extremely difficult to restore the gradual, real and believable love in the original work.
Not only does the actress need to be beautiful enough and her acting skills are good enough, it also requires the actor's acting skills to be good enough.
Actors' acting skills are sometimes more difficult to demand than computer special effects.
After all, computer special effects can generally be produced as long as you are willing to spend money, but the acting skills of actors...that thing is really uncertain.
Even world-famous movie kings and movie queens often star in bad dramas and movies whose acting is criticized.
so……
After thinking about it, Sun Quan decided that he should write an urban novel suitable for adaptation into a TV series.