Chapter 18: Forced Twins - "Northern Lin and Southern Zhou"

After sending all the mentors away, Xie Xiaojing took the cigarette handed to her by Lin Yicheng, watched him light it, and spoke.

"Your play won't have any trouble selling now, right?"

After serving Wang Hongwei another cigarette, Lin Yicheng also lit one for himself and said, "Several stations have called to ask about it, but I'm holding back on it, thinking of selling it later and trying to get it aired by the end of January."

Lin Yicheng did not hide the truth from his two close mentors.

"I'm very optimistic about Zhou Xingchi's new movie. Senior Huang Shengyi is the heroine. I want to increase the price a little after the movie is released."

"Besides, the main audience of my play is students, so it would be best to broadcast it during the winter vacation."

"That's right, you've thought it through. We don't have to worry about it anymore." Wang Weihong said, "I was thinking that if you couldn't sell well, we could help you find a few TV stations to ask."

"Thank you for your concern. Now it's just a matter of how much to sell it for."

This time, thanks to the hot sales of the album and his own rising fame, "Hello, Old Times" attracted the attention of several TV stations.

Putting out the cigarette in his hand, Lin Yicheng took out two copies of the script and handed them to the two of them.

"To be honest with you two, I have a book and I want to make a movie. I hope you can give me some guidance."

The two of them took it and looked down at it.

Ten minutes later, Wang Hongwei spoke first.

"You are learning from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels to go for a multi-line narrative. Pay attention to the rhythm, turning points, intersections, and divisions."

"Multiple narrative lines are not parallel lines. They must converge at the end, and the contradictions must erupt together. Therefore, the amount of each line and the speed of progress are the key points. If you don't do it well, it will be too long and too short, and that will cause big problems."

After listening to Wang Hongwei's words, Lin Yicheng gave him a thumbs up in his heart, as he always hit the key points.

A novice director will definitely make mistakes on these issues if no one guides him.

"There's nothing wrong with the script. You have to choose the right actors. This is a black humor. If you choose the right actors, you'll get twice the result with half the effort. If you don't choose the right ones, it'll easily lose balance and become a mess." Xie Xiaojing said.

Then, the two of them each talked about a few things that Lin Yicheng needed.

Although Lin Yicheng is not a complete novice, he has also seen Ning Hao's films.

But the same thing applies: seeing it and remembering it does not mean you can copy it.

It's like giving you a calligraphy work by Wang Xizhi. How can you possibly copy it right away without repeated study and polishing?

Lin Yicheng does not think that his current directing skills can match Ning Hao's. This is due to factors such as talent and experience.

Since I have chosen this movie, I can’t make a bad one.

Therefore, Lin Yicheng kept the advice of his two mentors firmly in mind.

"When do you plan to shoot this movie?" Xie Xiaojing asked.

"Maybe in the first half of next year."

"There is something that Lao Wang knows, but Xiaolin, you don't know yet." Xie Xiaojing said.

"The higher-ups have already decided to let me be the director of Qingying Studio. I'll be there next month. Come over when you want to shoot. I'll let Qingying participate as well."

"Thank you, teacher." Lin Yicheng nodded.

This is not Xie Xiaojing taking advantage of him, but helping him.

Not to mention that apart from Lin Yicheng, no one knows whether this play can make money, and investing means taking risks.

With Qingying’s investment, there will be fewer constraints in terms of distribution and scheduling.

"By the way, go to China Film Group Corporation. Old Han is looking for good scripts all over the world. Let him invest in them. I'll give him a call later and talk about this." Wang Hongwei is quite familiar with Han Sanye.

"Sorry to trouble you."

"What's the trouble? There's nothing big going on in your book. You can vote for it all yourself."

Wang Hongwei estimated that this book could be filmed with a maximum cost of several million yuan, which was not a problem at all considering the financial strength of his students.

Moreover, he was quite optimistic about this script, and thought it might be a chance to make money. Maybe, China Film and Qingying would eat and drink a little, thinking of their students' kindness.

...After saying goodbye to his two mentors, Lin Yicheng hurriedly drove away from the school, not daring to stay on campus for long.

It’s so popular that people might recognize it when walking on the street.

Don't worry too much about the album. Lin Yicheng has focused most of his energy on "Ghost Blows Out the Light". He has already finished writing 6 parts, and there will be no problem completing all 12 parts by December.

Then, it was time to change my mind and continue to polish the script of "Crazy Stone", draw storyboards, anticipate possible problems, etc.

Lin Yicheng hid in a small building and became a cloakroom, but his popularity in the outside world did not diminish at all.

The sales of this album, named "Lin Yicheng", are increasing steadily.

It has been three weeks on the market and the tapes have sold over 80 copies, and the CDs have sold nearly 50 copies.

This number is eye-popping.

This is the result achieved under the sluggish environment for physical records. If the environment were good during the holidays, how much would it sell?
I dare not think about it, I cannot think about it!
Some media outlets have already referred to him and Jay Chou, the most popular singer in Taiwan in the past two years, as "North Lin and South Zhou"!

This made the Taiwanese media quite dissatisfied. How can you be called a celebrity with just one album? Who knows if you are just a flash in the pan?
Besides, even if you force them to be called together, how can it be "Lin in the North and Zhou in the South"?

Do you really think we don’t watch “Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils”?
I wonder what the “Southern Murong” in “Northern Qiao Feng and Southern Murong” is like?
Who are you slandering, "Beilin Nanzhou"?
But the mainland media doesn’t care about this. I just brag about my own things and you can refute me.

As a result, the media in the two places started a war of words, and Lin Yicheng became the biggest beneficiary.

His popularity continued to rise, and so did his album sales.

Don’t blame the mainland media for making such a fuss and getting into a war of words with the Taiwanese media over Lin Yicheng.

It’s really because the Chinese music scene has been dominated by singers from Hong Kong and Taiwan for too long.

The female singers are slightly better, but there are few male singers who can compete. They are no match for Jay Chou, JJ, the Wahaha King, Dr. Chen, Chef Xie and others.

Among female singers, Wang Fei is the most outstanding one, but the Hong Kong media still says that she is not considered a mainland singer.

We finally have Lin Yicheng this time, so we should brag about him and feel proud of him for once, right?
Of course, we should not overestimate the integrity of the mainland media and think that they really want to make Lin Yicheng the flag bearer of the mainland music scene.

The media are all very smart.

Lin Yicheng is currently very popular and is very famous. If they report on him, sales will naturally increase.

As for whether Lin Yicheng will be blown up into a flash in the pan like "Zhongyong", what does it have to do with them? !

The newspapers were sold and the money was made, that's enough.

If Lin Yicheng really becomes the "Shang Zhongyong", that would be even better, he could sell it again and make another profit!
Even if Lin Yicheng knew about the calculations of these media, he would not care.

This is just the beginning. There will be plenty of opportunities for you to brag in the future.

Several singers saw that Lin Yicheng was becoming very popular and wanted to take advantage of his popularity and wanted to ask him to write a song for them, but Lin Yicheng was rejected by Zong Shuai.

Invite a shit!

There is only so much food in my stomach, what will I do if I give it to others?
He knows best how good of a "musical talent" he is.

Zong Shuai also heard some gossip that the Spring Festival Gala was planning to invite Lin Yicheng to perform.

However, since it is already the end of November, the programs have basically been confirmed and it is difficult to make temporary arrangements, so we decided to give up on this.

After hearing the news, Lin Yicheng still felt a little regretful.

After all, the Spring Festival Gala is still as popular as ever these days, and it would be of great benefit to him if he could perform on it.

But there is no other way, I can only keep working hard and see if there is a chance next year.

……

These days, thanks to the MV of "Fairy Tale", senior Yao Di has become somewhat famous.

The senior student secretly came to see Lin Yicheng several times, and each time she used the excuse of comforting him and telling him not to be discouraged because the play did not sell.

Although the excuse was lame, the effect was very good. After the senior student's gentle comfort, Lin Yicheng felt that his typing speed had increased a bit.

(End of this chapter)