"This script is very..." Murakami Iori read it carefully twice. Not to mention that the story is novel and highly original, but just in terms of writing standards, it is also professional. It is obvious that a lot of effort has been put into it. She really found it.
There weren't any questions, so I could only tell the truth: "It's very interesting, very good, but it's too short."
Japanese dramas are generally divided into four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter, with one season lasting three months, with about twelve episodes per season, that is, one episode per week, and they are filmed and broadcast at the same time. However, no matter how much the small script provided by Chihara Rinto is expanded, it probably cannot fill up to 700.
Minutes of playback content, if actually filmed, can only be regarded as a student work.
The teacher should give high marks to Chihara Rinto, which shows that Chihara Rinto is a very good talent. Although Murakami Iori is not going to use his script, he still has a love for talent and is going to recommend him to be a screenwriting assistant. I will help him today.
It doesn’t take much effort. Maybe ten or twenty years later, this will be a good network of connections and it feels like a good deal.
Before she could think of how to persuade her, Qianhara Rinto had already taken out a few more stacks of paper from his briefcase: "This is a series. Each episode is composed of two or three short plays. It is a multi-element unit play.
, I plan to call it "Wonderful Stories of the World", this is the overall planning description, these are two similar short stories..."
He copied the original version of "Amazing World" without even changing the name. It was the last time he respected the intellectual property rights. However, he copied many of the more classic stories from the season. After all, the best thing is how loud the first shot can be.
Just play it louder is better.
"Oh?" Murakami Iori glanced at Chihara Rinto in surprise. The plan was very comprehensive. I didn't expect it!
Only then did she really pay attention to him, and took a serious look at Qianhara Rinto for the first time.
He has short black hair, looks a little messy, pale complexion, handsome appearance, and overall a bit decadent, but he is sitting there with his back straight, as if he has not changed since the beginning, as if he can sit like this forever.
People feel that their willpower is tough. If you ask a yellow-haired gangster to sit like this, he can only hold on for five minutes and then he will become weak.
Standing like a pine tree and sitting like a clock is not as simple as saying. Without good self-awareness and tenacious nature, people will most likely succumb to their own desires and try to be as crooked as possible.
Moreover, this young man’s eyes are very attractive. People say that eyes are the windows to the soul. Through this man’s eyes, you can see the word “focus”. When he looks at people, it seems that all his attention is on you.
, there was a slight sense of oppression, but his expression was very calm, as if he had no intention of targeting anything in particular.
In short, this man's temperament is very special. To put it exaggeratedly, he has the legendary gentleman's demeanor as gentle as jade, but he hides his sword in a box.
Murakami Iori glanced at him twice, and felt slightly fond of him. He took the papers and looked at them more seriously. Is it positioned as a night drama? Is this feasible?
Chihara Rinto finally started lobbying: "Ms. Murakami plans to become a producer, especially if she does not have sufficient qualifications. She will face a lot of competition, right?"
"Yes." If there is a good opportunity, she wants to give it a try. Naturally, others also want to give it a try. Thinking on her heels, she knows that many people will join the competition.
"Isn't it difficult to get prime time?"
Murakami Iori nodded silently while watching. This is the truth. No problem, TV stations also broadcast programs in different time periods. For example, morning drama theaters that specialize in housewives are usually placed between seven and nine o'clock in the morning. During this period, housewives
We had just sent our husband and children away, so we had relatively free time;
Cartoons and animations such as those provided by Ziyixiang are usually held from 4 to 6 pm, when children just go home from school, while evening theaters and popular variety shows are usually held from 8 pm to 10 pm, when most adults get off work.
It's time to rest and relax.
These time periods generally have better ratings, and the quality of the programs is also related to the reputation of the TV station, so it is indeed unlikely to be handed over to newcomers.
Seeing Iori Murakami nodding in approval, Chihara Rinto's voice became more sincere, "So I think this project is suitable for Ms. Murakami, and it can also help Ms. Murakami. Currently, the late-night time slot is not taken seriously. If Ms. Murakami applies for such a time slot, editor
The committee won’t care much and will most likely let you try it, right?”
Iori Murakami has finished reading it roughly and found that the project is exciting. The other two short stories provided by Rinto Chihara are also interesting. If they can be filmed and filmed well, they should be quite attractive, and his words also say
Very reasonable.
She was silent for a while, closed the script but did not return it to Chihara Rinto, pressed it under her hand and hesitated: "But the audience in the night time period..."
The definition of the night time period is different for each TV station. It generally refers to the time between 23:00 and 5:00 am. During this time, most normal people are asleep and not many people watch TV. Staying up late was not popular in the 1990s.
Nowadays, TV stations really don’t pay attention to this time period. They usually show low-cost horror movies to fill up the quota, or simply put in TV shopping programs. After all, the ratings are only 0.04% when it is bad. It is simply not worth mentioning in this era without the Internet.
Lift and primetime TV dramas require a passing score of 15%, while nationally popular dramas can achieve around 40%, which is too much of a difference.
It's a good application, but what's the point of applying if you don't have an audience? It's just a mud pit, easy to get in but not easy to get out of.
In TV stations, ratings are the only thing that allows producers to speak loudly, and they are also the Sword of Damocles hanging over the producer's head. She was afraid that she would screw up the producer the first time and not get good results.
The upper management simply lost confidence in her and no longer gave her a chance, so she became a lifelong handyman girl.
Chihara Rinto understood her concerns and said seriously: "I understand what Miss Murakami means, but times are changing. Have you heard of the lipstick effect?"
Iori Murakami shook her head slowly. She had not been baptized by the Internet, was not affected by the era of information explosion, and did not know much about unpopular knowledge.
"The lipstick effect refers to an interesting economic phenomenon that leads to the hot sales of lipsticks due to economic depression, also called the phenomenon of preference for low-priced luxury goods. In the United States, whenever the economy is in recession, lipstick sales will explode because people think
Lipstick is a low-priced luxury product. In the economic downturn, people have limited funds for consumption, but their desire to consume cannot disappear. They can only buy such cheap luxury goods to satisfy their psychological needs.
Comfort yourself.”
Iori Murakami listened very carefully. Before the explosion of information, to obtain relatively professional knowledge, you either had to find a teacher or go to a library or bookstore. It was very difficult to satisfy your thirst for knowledge, and you would not let it go easily if you had the opportunity.
Rinto Chihara continued: "Now that Japan has entered the Great Depression, people's income and expectations for the future have dropped significantly. At this time, they will first cut back on non-essential expenditures, and entertainment-related expenses will bear the brunt, but people still
If they have entertainment needs, they cannot travel overseas or frequent bars and nightclubs, so for these people, what is the cheapest way of entertainment?"
Murakami Iori pondered for a moment: "Watching TV at home?"
"Yes, the Great Depression will make the TV industry more prosperous. The longer it lasts, the longer the lipstick effect will be, and the more TV viewers will stay in front of the TV. Ms. Murakami should feel this way when she works in a TV station.
?I guess, the average ratings of full-time segments are increasing year by year, is that wrong?”
Murakami Iori was a little convinced. This was indeed a fact, but no one had explained it as novelly as Chihara Rinto. She nodded slightly: "Yes, but only a few important prime time periods have seen significant growth, and late-night dramas are still..."
"That's because there is no content worth watching in late-night dramas nowadays, and it is impossible to retain the audience. As long as we can make a good drama, we can create miracles!" Chihara Rinto's words were sonorous, powerful, and full of temptation:
"This is a good opportunity, Ms. Murakami, I have confidence in the plan and script!"
Of course he is confident. "Wonderful Stories of the World" was originally called "Wonderful Nights of the World" and was originally only planned to be filmed for one season to fill in the late night slot. However, it was unexpectedly well-received and achieved a ratings of 20+% in the late night slot, causing a stir.
The TV station paid more attention to the late-night period and no longer did it perfunctoryly. Later, the response of the show became better and better, so it was simply moved to the prime time period and began the filming process of two to three seasons every year. The highest effective ratings were 37.4%.
This is also the reason why Chihara Rinto chose this drama.
But he couldn't tell Iori Murakami this, he could only see if she was willing to take a gamble. After all, whether she believed this script could be a good drama or not depended on her own judgment, and the promises made by others were useless.
Of course, it's stupid to place your hopes on others, but he must find a producer like Iori Uemura, because there are many types of crews. For example, the director is in charge of the production crew. This mostly appears in film shooting and animation production.
The director (supervisor) is the one who keeps his word and is also responsible for the performance of the work;
Another example is the writer-screenwriter-general-responsibility system, which is popularly used in Korean TV dramas and is also used in China’s Qiong Yao series.
Under the Japanese TV production bureau system, the producer is in charge of the overall system. The producer is responsible for submitting plans and forming the crew. He is responsible for almost everything except creation. He is also responsible for the final results. Under this model, the producer
The person represents the investor, is also the financial supervisor and chief producer of the crew, and is the most critical person in promoting the production of a program.
Unless Chihara Rinto finds a producer like Iori Murakami, there is no way to promote the filming of the script under the production bureau system. No matter how good the script is, it will be useless paper.
He could only wait for Murakami Iori to make his own decision, but Murakami Iori still didn't return the script to him, he just tapped it lightly, feeling extremely entangled in his heart.
The words make sense, the theory seems to be correct, the prospects are very attractive, and it is also a good plan and feasible. More importantly, it is like a low-investment, competitive project tailor-made for new producers like myself.
It’s less, it’s easy to pass, it’s easy to shoot, and the quality of the script is indeed good, but should you take risks or stick to your original plan for stability?
It is a question worth pondering regarding career future...