My Wife is a Big Star Chapter 121 : New Song

Chapter 121 - New Song

Director Wu Tao was a relatively ticulous person. While discussing the program, seeing that Chen Ran wanted to understand the few colleagues from earlier, he introduced them with emphasis.

These individuals were not attached to any program crew and had originally wanted to compete with Chen Ran for the late-night slot.

The competition in the satellite TV channel was great, extrely great.

They not only had to compete with their own people but also with people from the outside.

For example, when there was a new program to be produced, everyone happily rubbed their fists and wiped their palms, preparing to compete.

But just as they had finished preparing here, the station directly poached soone from the outside to parachute in.

This kind of thing didn't happen often, but it wasn't rare either.

Just like Wang Mingyi, whose seniority was old enough and who had produced decent programs.

But since he couldn't reach a major production and wanted to prove himself, he even ca to compete for a small program like a late-night slot.

Listening to Director Wu Tao's introduction, Chen Ran gained so understanding of these few individuals.

If nothing unexpected happened, soone here would definitely join their program.

Chen Ran wasn't clear about their abilities; assembling the team would still have to be decided by Director Wu Tao and Director Zhao Peisheng.

Of course, before this, they still had to properly discuss the program first.

Having been selected, Director Wu Tao had definitely read the proposal Chen Ran wrote previously and was quite interested in the program because it was novel.

At the sa ti, he also knew the difficulty. To produce this kind of program well, the script was the key.

Looking at the script for the first episode that Chen Ran had attached, it had sowhat of an implication that made one smack the table and shout 'bravo'. However, just one single episode was far too little.

"This script of yours is indeed written very well," Director Wu Tao praised repeatedly.

Chen Ran smiled and said, "The script is very important for our program. Director Wu, you are familiar with the people in the station. When the ti cos, please choose a scriptwriting team that suits our program."

Chen Ran would grasp the style of the script, but he alone didn't have that many jokes to write; there had to be a professional team.

Director Wu Tao naturally understood Chen Ran's aning. The script was the essence, so it definitely couldn't be sloppy. Relying solely on Chen Ran alone would absolutely be unable to maintain the program's quality.

"The program is quite novel, but the risks are also not small," Director Wu Tao analyzed together with Chen Ran.

The program for the Thursday late-night slot was indeed hard to produce. In this ti slot, 'Magic Cute Babies' basically suppressed everything.

Not only was the talk show a new program, but the format had also completely never appeared before. Putting it up to clash with 'Magic Cute Babies', it was hard to guarantee it wouldn't beco cannon fodder.

Upon hearing this, Chen Ran slowly discussed it with Director Wu. Actually, he had written it clearly in the proposal.

Every program has its own target audience positioning, and segnting the audience groups is extrely necessary.

For example, a music program must be divided into folk and pop, corresponding to specific audiences.

The talk show and 'Magic Cute Babies' seed to be colliding, but the audience groups were different, creating differentiation.

Actually, when Chen Ran first saw 'Magic Cute Babies', he had also thought of so children's programs. But he wasn't pigheaded; why did he have to forcefully produce the sa type to clash with it?

Moreover, if he truly were to produce a children's program, the budget would be uncontrollable, and it wasn't even certain if the satellite TV channel would choose him.

During lunch, Director Zhang called, telling Chen Ran not to invite him and to eat with his colleagues instead to get familiar with them first.

Having changed to a new working environnt, building good relationships with colleagues was very necessary.

Hearing this, Chen Ran felt slightly warm in his heart.

He definitely wouldn't be working overti these next two days, so he would go accompany Uncle Zhang to chat at night again.

……

The station had quite a high tolerance for that antique history program.

The main reason was that they didn't hold any expectations for this ti slot, so they weren't in a hurry to pull it down either, letting Chen Ran and the others slowly prepare.

Even Director Zhao Peisheng told them not to be anxious, that the ti was ample, to slowly sculpt it, and to strive to produce the program a bit better.

But this program was quite simple to produce. With just this little budget, no matter how much they sculpted it, they couldn't carve flowers out of it.

After two or three days passed, Director Wu Tao couldn't hold back anymore. He discussed it with Chen Ran and went to reflect the situation to Director Zhao Peisheng.

Director Zhao Peisheng first frowned. After discussing with Chen Ran and the others for a while, he found that they were indeed pretty much prepared.

After making so modifications to the program, it was submitted for review again. If nothing unexpected happened, it would be ti to assemble the team once it ca down this ti.

Director Wu Tao breathed a slight sigh of relief. He wasn't soone who could sit idle, and he also wanted to produce the program early.

Now that the program had been submitted, he also had to get busy selecting the scriptwriting team.

Chen Ran wasn't too familiar with the people in the satellite TV channel, so this matter was entirely handled by Director Wu Tao himself.

Actually, he felt Wang Mingyi was quite suitable.

The program needed to search for and find trending news, and this Wang Mingyi was absolutely suitable. After all, having to draw inspiration from so many programs, his sensitivity to this information was definitely very high.

But Wang Mingyi was different from Lin Fan. Wang Mingyi's previous program was much bigger than this talk show.

Now that the guy had failed to compete for the chief planner position, that was already bad enough. If you still wanted him to co over and help you, doing this kind of thing to rub salt in the wound would get you scolded miserably.

Chen Ran could only give up this thought. These past two days he couldn't stay idle either, and began searching for suitable talk show perforrs.

As a result, for most of these two days, he had been watching programs.

And it was precisely during these two days that Chen Yao's song 'For the Rest of My Life', after spreading crazily on the internet during this period, actually topped the Huaxia Music free chart!

For a song with practically zero promotion to actually reach this kind of result just by relying on people sharing it back and forth on the internet was indeed a bit exaggerated.

Now, let alone on the internet, even on the commute ho from work, this song could be heard on the traffic radio station.

Solely in terms of popularity, just for this period of ti, it was even higher than Zhang Fanzhi's songs.

Of course, it couldn't be compared like this.

If you asked soone who sang 'Initial Dream', they would definitely imdiately think of Zhang Fanzhi.

But if you asked who sang 'For the Rest of My Life', probably many people would just have a face full of question marks.

The song is popular but the singer isn't; it was probably just like this.

Chen Yao had never thought about becoming famous either. During the ti the song reached the top, quite a few companies contacted her, saying she had great potential and planning to sign her.

Chen Yao was unmoved and rejected all of them.

These companies were just green with envy over her popularity. If they signed her, they would just grab her to rake in money.

Not to ntion she hadn't thought about being a singer; even if she really planned to sign, she wouldn't be this casual about it.

When Chen Yao's song reached the top, it was in the middle of the night. She was so excited she couldn't sleep, and called Chen Ran to say thank you.

Chen Ran was sleeping soundly at the ti. He was truly made sowhat dazed by this phone call from his sister, but hearing her this happy, he could only endure it.

Actually, he wasn't the only one being tornted. There was also Zhang Ruyi at the Zhang family ho, whose eyes were bulging with anger.

She couldn't even count how many tis she had been woken up by a midnight phone call from this silly roommate.

Also during these two days, Zhang Fanzhi's new song, after warming up, began to go online as well.

Chen Ran naturally rushed over to listen the very first mont, and then felt his brows furrow. This song didn't seem very catchy.

Relying on Zhang Fanzhi's voice made the song sound sowhat pleasing to the ear, but it couldn't cover up the fact that the song wasn't that outstanding.

The song's release data also proved Chen Ran's thoughts. Although it quickly entered the top ten for new songs, and even ran to the fifth position in two days' ti.

But it would be very difficult for it to advance any further from there.

Don't look at how the ranking was still not bad; this was because Fanxing Company had done a warm-up and subsequently put effort into promoting it.

Coupled with Zhang Fanzhi's own inherent popularity right now, this song's performance could only be said to barely et the standard.

When Zhang Fanzhi called Chen Ran, she wasn't in a very good mood.

She didn't ntion the matter of the song, but Chen Ran could feel that she wasn't satisfied.

Hearing her not utter a sound, Chen Ran comforted her:

"Actually, it's quite normal. Look at those Heavenly Kings and Heavenly Queens, none of them can guarantee that every single song is a classic.”