Chapter 51: Overhauling the script of 'Traffic Station No. 2'
News that "Underground Traffic Station" won the Spring Festival ratings championship hit major portal websites.
The most searched for scarf!
The popular front page of the currency site!
Other online platforms also focused on the report, and even Penguin News, which had been silent before, also made a push.
With such an explosion of traffic, Zuo Le's mobile phone also became busy. Since the news broke, there have been text messages, Fetion, scarves, phone calls... countless people have come to congratulate him as the new "champion" director.
After being busy until the evening, Zuo Le could finally take a breather. He declined Fatty Chen's invitation to go out for a drink to celebrate and drove back to the rental house.
The procedures for the house in Qingwan Town rewarded by the TV station have been approved. The key will be given to Zuo Le in the next two days, and the 5 million bonus will be credited to his account at the same time.
Zuo Le asked. The hard decoration of the house had been completed. He only needed to buy some furniture and he could move in directly. Zuo Le estimated that it would not be too long before he left the rental house in Fengyuan Community.
After graduating from college and moving out of the dormitory, Zuo Le has been living in this rental house, and he still has a lot of affection for this temporary harbor.
But no matter how much love you have, it is not as close as your own house.
Zuo Le has been busy with the decisive battle with "Gale" these two days and has never taken time out. Now that the decisive battle is over and he has time, the moving matter can be put on the agenda.
After opening the door and entering the house, Zuo Le went to wash his face first, and then instead of running to the sofa in the living room to play with his mobile phone as usual, he went to the bedroom, turned off the lights and lay down on the bed.
Don't get me wrong, Zuo Le is not sleeping, but watching a new TV series on the video player in his head.
Last night, the finale of "Underground Traffic Station" aired. Zuo Le suddenly had three more posters in the film library of the video player in his mind. Zuo Le quietly clicked in and took a look. It turned out that each poster was from a movie he had never seen before.
new drama.
There were too many people around at that time, and Zuo Le did not dare to "distract" in the conference room. He waited until he returned to the rental house before he dared to find out.
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How did three new dramas suddenly appear?
Zuo Le didn't know, but he guessed it had something to do with the finale of "Underground Traffic Station".
Before, he never understood why there was no new news about this video player, but now he finally figured out some clues.
The creation or unlocking of "new dramas" in film and television dramas should require Zuo Le, the so-called "host", to complete certain conditions to trigger them, and most of these conditions must match the real-life situation.
For example, this time, it may be that Zuo Le reproduced "Underground Traffic Station" into reality and played it, triggering the unlocking/generating conditions of this film and television player, and then successfully unlocked/generated three new dramas.
Zuo Le feels that his inference is reliable, but he is still a little unsure whether the triggering conditions for the creation/unlocking of new dramas are the endings of real-life TV dramas.
If so, this is too simple.
If not, what should be the conditions?
Achieving certain ratings results or winning a certain ratings championship?
Or to expand the influence or reputation of the TV series to a certain numerical point?
Or is it just relying on the network of TV series to fulfill the will and belief of a certain number of viewers?
While Zuo Le's imagination was wide open, he was also a little dissatisfied.
Look at other people’s cheats. There are hints for everything. Even if it’s not working well, it will issue a task. It’s not like my own player. It doesn’t say anything and has to guess everything by myself. It’s not intelligent at all...
he...tui
However, although Zuo Le attaches great importance to how the film and television player unlocks/generates new dramas, he has no choice but to conduct experiments now, so he puts these speculations aside in his mind for the time being and will discuss them later.
Zuo Le has launched three new dramas one by one, namely "Traffic Station No. 2", "The Story of the Cooking Class 1" and "The Story of the Cooking Class 2".
After briefly reading the introduction, Zuo Le ignored the last two dramas and focused entirely on "Traffic Station No. 2".
Mom, I have a pillow when I doze off. I just announced that I will make a sequel to "Underground Traffic Station", so I have the original version to copy... Ahem, I borrowed it...
That night, Zuo Le couldn't wait to watch five or six episodes in a row. If he hadn't been obsessed with watching the final result of the decisive battle between "Underground Traffic Station" and "Strong Wind", he might have watched it all night.
Today, all the dust of the decisive battle has settled, and all the greetings and congratulations from relatives and friends have been replied to. Zuo Le decided to stay up late and fight hard to finish watching "Traffic Station No. 2" as soon as possible.
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However, Zuo Le did not keep his word this time. He only saw the 20th episode, frowned and exited the playback screen, then ran to the TV series' own comment area and left the player with a depressed expression.
"The quality of this sequel...isn't it too different from the previous one?"
Zuo Le rubbed his brows. If he copied this sequel into reality, he would probably be scolded by the fans of "Underground Traffic Station", and the ratings would not be very good.
The word-of-mouth ratings are so bad that even his budding director career will be taken back to the starting point...
"Well"
Thinking of this, Zuo Le could not help but shudder. No, we must not copy the original version this time.
The script needs to be changed.
Need a big change!
Zuo Le got up from the bed, sat in front of the computer, opened the preliminary outline of his previous sequel script, and then compared it with the original version of "Traffic Station No. 2", and his chaotic mind gradually began to make sense.
The sequel will still have to feature the original cast, and the background location will not be Donkey's Horse Bridge, but will be set in Anqiu.
The two most controversial characters, Jin Bao and Squad Leader Zhao, were directly deleted. Jin Bao's role was moved to Shui Gen. Since Squad Leader Zhao was an undercover agent working within the enemy, he could choose to give the role to Bai Translator.
Yes, in the sequel, Bai Translation is completely changed and changed to a formal underground worker. The contact person is still Shi Qingshan. Shui Gen and Xiao Shitou continue to hide their identities from him. This will not affect Bai Translation's attitude towards Dingxiang Tower, and it can also
Better protect traffic stops.
There is also Miss Qi, whose character attributes are a bit redundant. She can be changed into a guest star with a larger role. She will appear in episodes when her identity is needed, and she will be referred to as a tool person.
In this way, the unlikable characters can be deleted, and the remaining plot can be adapted and designed based on the original characters.
Although "Traffic Station No. 2" is far inferior to "Underground Traffic Station" in Zuo Le's opinion, and the character setting is even worse, there are still a lot of merits in terms of the plots of some episodes.
Although Zuo Le only watched 20 episodes, he still picked out many highlights, such as the "Enemies on a Narrow Road" segment where Kurofuji Nojiri's rivals reunited, the "Absurd Division" segment that poked fun at the Osaka Fourth Division, and the establishment of a women's anti-espionage team.
The "impossible to detect" unit, and the "all-out" unit where scammers pretend to be Eight Routes and Heiteng battle wits and courage...
As long as these units are slightly revamped and some humor added, the quality won't be much worse than the first one, but it won't be much worse.
Zuo Le looked at the time and saw that it was already dawn. He was not in the mood to go to work, so he called Lao Fang to ask for leave.
When Lao Fang heard that Zuo Le was writing the script for the sequel to "Underground Traffic Station", he approved it for a week without saying a word, and said that if it was not enough, he would come back and approve it again. As long as Zuo Le wrote the script well, he didn't have to worry about anything.
Zuo Le hung up the phone, went out of the bedroom, washed his feet with cold water, cheered up, sat in front of the computer with a box of milk in his mouth and continued to pick up the outline of the script... In the past few chapters, I compared the average ratings of the day with
The concept of the average ratings of the whole drama was confused. Now it has been corrected. Thank you to the book friends who pointed out the errors. Thank you for not being Mu Xin’s 200 rewards, but 2’s 100 rewards.
