Because for a long time in the future, the most effective promotion media and the most effective modeling platform in China will inevitably have the shadow of variety shows.
Therefore, Lin Chen is particularly devoted to the running of the Running Brothers program.
After easily reversing the predicament and confirming cooperation with Donghai Satellite TV, both parties immediately started preparations for the relevant programs.
Previously, in order to win cooperation from Donghai TV, Lin Chen agreed to bear the production costs of the entire program. However, after seeing Lin Chen's sponsorship fee for Huawei Mobile and Tmall Mall, Donghai TV also changed his mind.
Offer to bear the production costs.
After all, the prerequisite for Lin Chen to bear the production fee is all the copyrights of Running Brothers. If Donghai Satellite TV agrees, it will only have the broadcast rights and related advertising revenue in the future. Lin Chen will get interested one day and put the follow-up programs on other satellite TVs.
Donghai Satellite TV has no solution at all.
After all, there are talented people in a satellite TV station in a municipality. Yan Ming from the Variety Show Department saw the potential of Running Brothers in the future, so he argued with reason and made the TV station change its attention. He took the initiative to bear part of the production costs in order to win the rights to copyright.
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But even so, because Lin Chen has too high requirements for the program, they calculated that the production cost of just the twelve episodes of the first season would be at least tens of millions, which is the only one among domestic variety shows!
Moreover, Lin Chen also placed very high demands on the production team.
Yan Ming, the deputy director of Donghai Satellite TV's Variety Department, had previous experience in directing outdoor reality shows and Lin Chen's suggestion. This time, he was entrusted with an important task by the station director and personally assigned him to be the program director of "Running Brothers".
Although the former director Zhou Chen later made up for his mistakes by re-signing an agreement with Lin Chen, his acceptance of bribes from Wu Hui was still exposed, and he is currently undergoing a cessation inspection in Taiwan. Although because of his backstage background, this matter may not be resolved.
However, he had to give up his position as director to others.
Yan Ming has already received a hint from the director of the station. As long as he can successfully film "Running Brothers" this time, he will help it operate and try to remove the word "vice" from his deputy director's name.
Therefore, Yan Ming mustered up all his energy this time and wanted to do something big.
However, when he saw the complete program plan provided by Lin Chen, he suddenly sweated profusely and said to Lin Chen: "Mr. Lin, your program is too crazy. The scene and theme must be changed in every episode.
This is the first time I have seen this show! Moreover, the scale of this show is too big...it can use the entire city as the stage, so aren't the photographers and directors going to die?"
In order to receive the RMB 500 million from this big-budget variety show, Donghai Satellite TV also mobilized elite troops to form a location scouting team, a writing team, a directing team, a camera team, a post-production team, and a production team, a total of six production teams.
Today, the heads of the six production teams are here, except for the screenwriting team, which is temporarily headed by Lin Chen.
When they heard Yan Ming's words, they all nodded in agreement.
No matter what aspect of "Running Brothers", there is almost no precedent to follow. Even in foreign countries, they have not found similar programs yet. Therefore, these people do not say whether they can produce the effect Lin Chen wants, but let them
I don’t feel confident even after finishing one episode of the program.
Looking at the sad faces on these people's faces, Lin Chen felt helpless, but even so, he had to push this project forward, and he had to start filming as soon as possible, because there was not much time left for them.
Therefore, Lin Chen knocked on the table and said to them: "Everyone, I know you have difficulties and doubts, but the filming of this show must start this month at the latest, and the pre-production work must be completed within a month...
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"This is impossible!"
Yan Ming and the others immediately objected.
But Lin Chen's next words immediately made everyone stop complaining.
"If the task can be completed on time, I will personally give six months' salary bonus to all the staff involved in the production!"
"Wow~!"
The TV station is a public institution, and most of the staff here receive dead wages and small performance bonuses. I have never seen such a generous boss as Lin Chen. Therefore, after hearing these words, the complaints just now disappeared immediately.
Even Yan Ming was in high spirits.
Seeing everyone working together, Lin Chen also had a smile on his face.
But behind the smile, there is worry.
There were no problems with the preparations of several project teams of "Running Brothers", but the biggest problem was with the writing team.
Because until now, Lin Chen has not found a suitable screenwriter candidate. The existing screenwriters on the TV station are said to be rubbish. You can expect those screenwriters who have only done dating programs and citizen dispute programs to come up with light humor.
program script?
Several screenwriters recommended by Yan Ming were all rejected by Lin Chen. In the end, Yan Ming had no choice but to say: "Mr. Lin, why don't you find some new people? Some students at the Donghai Drama Academy are pretty good, and we were there before.
I have recruited interns, and some of them are indeed talented in screenwriting."
Donghai Drama Academy?
Lin Chen had no choice but to be a doctor, and with the idea of giving it a try, he planned to go there and have a look.
Anyway, he figured it out. If it really didn't work, he would have to catch the duck and get it on the shelves himself.
Although he doesn't know much about screenwriting, at least he still remembers the theme of each issue of the running man in his previous life, and with his golden fingers, he should be able to cope with it.
The next day, nine o'clock in the morning.
Lin Chen came to Donghai Drama Academy.
This is a performance school with a long history. Together with the two art schools in Beijing, it has become the three major art schools in China and Xiaxia. Two actors, Chen Chichi and Zhen Kai, who have signed contracts with Xu Ling's Chenling Entertainment, are here.
Graduated students.
Therefore, before coming here today, Lin Chen inquired with the two of them and learned that there were students from three departments in the School of Drama who might be able to meet Lin Chen's needs.
There is a directing department, a film and television school, and a drama and literature department.
With the idea of giving it a try, Lin Chen came to the Drama Academy alone.
In order not to attract attention, Lin Chen traveled lightly today, without any bodyguards or a luxury car. He entered the academy on a bicycle he bought temporarily from a roadside shop.
Donghai Drama Academy is not big. Lin Chen was wearing casual clothes and riding a bicycle. The security guard thought he was a student and let him ride in without even checking.
Entering the campus, Lin Chen stopped at an intersection. Seeing the campus scenery that had not been seen for a long time and the small campus, an idea suddenly occurred to him.
Anyway, this campus is not big, why don’t I use my own ability to do an experiment?
The experiment that Lin Chen wanted to do was to use his ability to see the success rate to find people.
In fact, he wanted to try this experiment at Donghai TV Station, but the TV station was like a maze. Lin Chen was afraid that he would get lost after a few turns, so he gave up in the end. But this drama school was boxy, so there was no need for it.
Worried about getting lost.
It was a rare opportunity, so Lin Chen immediately started trying it.
At the crossroads in front of me, the probability of finding a suitable screenwriter for Running Man is...
The next moment, three numbers appeared in three directions in front of Lin Chen.
100%!70%!50%!
Huh? There’s actually a 100% number?
Lin Chen was overjoyed. It was indeed one of the three best art schools in the country. There were really talented people here!
The next moment, Lin Chen immediately started riding and turned toward the intersection that showed a 100% probability.
Next, Lin Chen seemed to use his ability as a person-finding radar. Every time he came to an intersection, he used his ability. Gradually, he rode deep into the school, in front of a campus theater.