Chapter 298 Oscar Best Original Score, It’s All About the Heartbeat

Zhou Yan asked Wei Yuru and the others to rest for a day and report to the studio the next day.

But the next afternoon, Wei Yuru brought the other four people to the studio.

When the front desk Xiao Li brought them to Zhou Yan's office, Zhou Yan was quite surprised, "Sister Yuru, why are you here today? Didn't I ask you to rest for a day and come tomorrow?"

Wei Yuru smiled, "There's nothing to rest for. Come here early and you'll feel more at ease."

Zhou Yan patted his forehead, "Oh, I didn't communicate well. Your office hasn't been cleaned up yet, but don't worry, come with me first."

Wei Yuru and the others didn't come empty-handed, they all carried their own instruments.

Fortunately, their instruments were not big, the largest one was Mei Min's guqin, which was not very strenuous to hold.

Zhou Yan took them to the third floor and pushed open the door of a practice room, "This is rehearsal room No. 6. The area is relatively small, but it's no problem for you to use it. And don't look at this room as small, the equipment is very good."

After entering the rehearsal room, Zhou Yan turned on the light.

When the lights in the room came on, the eyes of several female comrades also lit up.

Zhou Yan said that this rehearsal room was small, but in the eyes of Wei Yuru and others, it was not small at all. This room was at least 150 square meters and the ceiling was very high.

Although it has not been used yet, just looking at the roof and walls, you can tell that the sound field effect and sound insulation effect of this rehearsal room will not be bad.

The rehearsal room is basically empty, but there is a set of radio equipment that does not take up much space.

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "How is it? Are you satisfied with the conditions?"

"Very satisfied!"

The smiles on the faces of several female comrades were about to overflow. Zhu Lanxi was younger and more lively. She looked around the rehearsal room with her erhu in her arms: "Tsk tsk, when have we ever fought such a rich battle? Teacher Zhou, will this rehearsal room be used by us in the future?"

Zhou Yan nodded, "Well, this will be your exclusive rehearsal room in the future. I will ask someone to change the nameplate at the door later."

Hearing Zhou Yan mention the nameplate, Zhu Lanxi asked, "Teacher Zhou, what is the name of our orchestra? Has it been decided?"

"It's called Qingyinfang, the clear of clear water and the sound of music."

Hearing this name, several people nodded. This name is simple and easy to remember, which is pretty good.

"You can play here for a while. I'll take people to clean up your office. If you have any questions, feel free to tell me."

"Okay, thank you, Zhou Yan." Wei Yuru said.

Zhou Yan smiled and went to prepare an office for them.

In fact, the office was ready-made, and it didn't take time to clean up. Zhou Yan led people to simply clean up two rows of workstations, and then went to the piano youth folk band and called out Yu Jia and the others.

In addition to Wei Yuru and the other five, Zhou Yan selected four people from the piano youth folk band, making a total of nine people.

Zhou Yan took the two sides to get to know each other.

Wei Yuru had performed with the piano youth orchestra before, so she was familiar with the members of the orchestra.

Yu Jia was the daughter of the head of the folk band, and she was familiar with the people in the folk band, so Zhou Yan didn't need to introduce them, and they got to know each other quickly.

After they chatted for a while, Zhou Yan said, "There are no rehearsal tasks these days. If you don't want to be idle, find some songs to practice. Teacher Dong's studio will send someone to measure your size tomorrow afternoon."

"Measure the size, are you going to make us performance clothes? Is it the same as what Sister Yuru wore before?" Yu Jia said excitedly.

When they were in the United States, the performance costume that Wei Yuru wore left a deep impression on them, and the girls all wanted to have one.

"This performance costume is specially designed. There are two sets in total. The style must be simpler than Sister Yuru's previous one. But you know Teacher Dong's level, it must be very beautiful."

"Of course we believe in Sister Miaomiao's level. Let's measure the size tomorrow. Will Sister Miaomiao come? If she comes, I want to ask her what color clothes she is going to design for us this time."

"Probably... she won't come."

Since last year, Dong Wenmiao has become quite distant from him. The two of them haven't seen each other for a long time. They communicate over the phone when there is anything, and Dong Wenmiao always has a businesslike attitude.

Sometimes Zhou Yan wants to reminisce with her, but there is no good time.

"That's a pity." Yu Jia said regretfully.

Zhou Yan smiled, "Okay, I'm going back to the office first. Remember to come to me if you have any questions. Sister Yuru, if you have any questions, you can also ask Yu Jia and the others."

"Okay, go and get busy. You don't have to take care of us here."

...

After returning to the office, Zhou Yan was not idle. He began to list the performance program for Qingyinfang.

Zhou Yan will definitely write some exclusive songs for Qingyinfang in the future, but now that Qingyinfang has just been established, Zhou Yan will let them play other songs of their own as a transition.

The first songs he thought of were "Yearning Across Time and Space" and "Drinking the Yangtze River Together". These two songs are relatively simple and easy to change the instrumentation.

In addition, there are "Searching for Plum Blossoms in the Snow" and "Nightingale", which are not complicated to make.

In addition, Zhou Yan also wants to change the instrumentation of "Guanghan Palace".

The version in the album is played by western instruments such as violin. Zhou Yan wants to change the violin to erhu and arrange other instruments. In this way, the song will become another style.

Listing these songs is not as simple as writing the names. Zhou Yan also has to rearrange them according to the instruments of the members of Qingyinfang.

If necessary, Zhou Yan will make some modifications to the songs to match their instruments.

Zhou Yan did not rush to tell Zhang Youan about the establishment of Qingyinfang, because he wanted to arrange a few songs first and let Qingyinfang try the effect.

If the effect is good, then bring them to Neon.

…

More than a week later, Zhou Yan took Qingyinfang to practice "Missing through Time and Space" and the new version of "Guanghan Palace", and the effect was better than he imagined.

Especially the new version of "Guanghan Palace (Confession Night)", Zhu Lanxi's erhu performance surprised him very much.

The Erhu version of "Guanghan Palace" has a more weeping and complaining feeling. Compared with the violin version, the mood of grief is stronger. With the help of instruments such as pipa and guqin, the sense of space is very strong.

The only regret is that their performance clothes have not been made yet. According to Dong Wenmiao, it takes more than a month to make a set of clothes.

In other words, even if they wait until April to go to Neon, Qingyinfang can only wear one new performance clothes at most.

But one set is enough.

Zhou Yan called Zhang Youan and told him that Qingyinfang has been formed and can go to the Music House to talk about the show.

"It's quite fast. Give me the personnel information first, and I'll have someone do the formalities."

"Okay."

"Also, what songs are you playing at Qingyinfang now?"

"We have rehearsed two songs for now, "Yearning Across Time and Space" and "Guanghan Palace". We should rehearse two or three more songs before going to Neon."

"Two songs will be enough for the Music House. But they have finally gone to Neon, so this can't be the only activity. Otherwise, it would be a waste. I'll see if there are any activities for them to participate in."

"You can arrange it."

"Well, The contract for Titanic has been finalized, but Fox is going to announce the news later. "

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "It's just the soundtrack, is there a need to announce it specifically?"

"Normally, there's no need to announce a soundtrack contract, but you've been very popular recently. Fox certainly doesn't want to waste it, so they'll wait until after the Oscars to announce the news. Maybe you'll win the Best Soundtrack, and the popularity will come again, right?"

Zhou Yan doesn't pay much attention to the Oscars, but he's more concerned about the release of The Sixth Sense.

"The premiere of The Sixth Sense is going to be held, right?"

"Yes, it's on March 27th, the third day after the Oscars, and the movie will be officially released on the 29th. I talked to Bregman a few days ago, and he was quite sorry that you couldn't attend the premiere."

"No way, I don't have time to go there every day."

"He told me, did you tell him that as long as the box office of The Sixth Sense exceeds 100 million US dollars, you will go to their celebration party?"

"I mean the North American box office exceeds 100 million US dollars."

"It's hard The popularity is quite high, but from what Bregman said, there seems to be some hope. You just won the Special Jury Award, and Columbia is promoting you like crazy in North America. They are also promoting the Oscar nomination for Best Original Score. The effort is good, and the effect is quite good. The popularity of "The Sixth Sense" in North America is quite high. And there are no competitive movies in the same period, so "The Sixth Sense" does have a chance. "

There are not many movies released in North America in March and April, and most movies are concentrated in May, June, July, August, November and December.

This year's popular movies, such as "Independence Day", "The Mission: Impossible" and "Twister", the first one was released in July, and the latter two were released in May.

Since the beginning of the year, only "Bird Cage" has performed well.

"Bird Cage" was released in early March, and it has been released for almost two weeks. It does not form a direct competitive relationship with "The Sixth Sense".

There are both advantages and disadvantages to releasing movies in March and April. The good thing is that there are fewer competitors, and the bad thing is that the popularity of the schedule itself is relatively low, so it is not easy to get good results.

"If the North American box office can really exceed 100 million US dollars, I will definitely go to the celebration party." Zhou Yan laughed.

"Haha, of course you have to go. If the North American box office can really exceed 100 million US dollars, your Zhou Group will make a fortune."

It is no secret that Zhou Group invested 4 million US dollars in the remake of "The Sixth Sense". Zhang Youan certainly knows it.

Although he doesn't know how much Zhou Group can get, it is definitely not less for the investment of 4 million US dollars.

A North American box office of 100 million US dollars means that the global box office may exceed 200 million US dollars, which is ten times the budget.

Ten times is actually nothing for Zhou Yan's movies.

Because Zhou Yan has made three feature films since his debut, and the box office of the first two films has far exceeded ten times the budget.

"The Chorus" is now only released in mainland China, and the box office has already exceeded 50 million. When it is released in other places, it seems that it is not difficult to reach ten times.

But the budgets of Zhou Yan's films are relatively small, the cost is low, and the box office is slightly higher, the multiple can go up.

The budget of "The Sixth Sense" is 21.5 million US dollars. With this budget, the box office has reached ten times, which is a huge profit.

With a box office of US$200 million, Zhou could conservatively earn US$10 million.

"It's better to talk less about things that haven't happened yet."

Zhang Youan said with a smile, "Okay, let's not talk about this for now. I want to tell you another thing."

"whats the matter?"

"The global box office of "Sense and Sensibility" has exceeded 140 million U.S. dollars. It is predicted that the final box office of this movie will be between 170 million U.S. dollars and 200 million U.S. dollars. Colombia is doing really well with this business. ah."

Zhou Yan was not surprised at all when he heard that the global box office of "Sense and Sensibility" exceeded 140 million US dollars.

The basics of this movie are good, and it has received such high box office in North America. It also won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival last month.

Nowadays, this movie is very popular, and it is normal to get tens of millions of dollars at the box office outside North America.

After the follow-up movie is released, the audio and video products will definitely sell very well.

Thinking about it, after "Sense and Sensibility", An Li will become the darling of Hollywood, and a large number of commercial movies will find him.

"It seems I have to find time to call An Li and say hello."

"It's better to wait until after the Academy Awards. "Sense and Sensibility" has been nominated for several awards, so it will definitely win an award."

"That's okay too."

…

On the morning of March 26, when Zhou Yan went to the office, he saw Han Sanping sitting on the sofa in his office drinking tea.

Zhou Yan looked at his watch, it was only half past eight.

"Third brother, why are you here so early in the morning?"

Han Sanping held the tea cup and smiled, "Don't I miss the tea in your office? Come over and have a sip."

Zhou Yan twitched his lips, "Have you had breakfast?"

"After eating, what time is it? You don't really think I'm here to drink tea, do you? Do you know what day it is today?"

"What day is it today, Tuesday?"

Han Sanping rolled his eyes, "Today is the time of the Oscars. News will definitely come from the United States later. I came to you so I can get first-hand news."

"Just for this?"

"Ang, just for this reason. Isn't this a sufficient reason?"

Zhou Yan scratched his head and said, "If you are in a hurry to know, let me know as soon as possible and I will call you as soon as possible. If not, I will ask Zhang Youan to inform you first and then me."

"That's not a big deal. Anyway, your studio is close to our factory, so it won't be troublesome for me to come over."

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "Okay, third brother, just sit down and wait for a while. I still have some music that I haven't finished writing yet."

In the past two days, he was compiling the score of "Drinking the Water of the Yangtze River" for Qingyinfang, and there was still the last bit left to finish. He planned to finish it today, so he started working early in the morning.

Seeing Zhou Yan working as soon as he arrived, Han Sanping shook his head and sighed. Zhou Yan's determination is really not comparable to that of ordinary people.

Not to mention young men in their twenties, even if it were Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou, they were eagerly looking forward to the results of the award ceremony and had no time to do other things.

It’s no wonder that Zhou Yan can succeed. With this determination, what can he do?

After a while, Zhao Zhang rushed in from the outside and said, "Brother Yan, is there any news from the United States?"

Zhao Zhang rushed in without thinking and froze when he saw Han Sanping sitting on the sofa.

"Han, Director Han, you are here too."

Han Sanping smiled and nodded, "Well, I'm here to wait for the news too."

Zhou Yan glanced at Zhao Xi, "You're so grown up, and you're still so frizzy."

Zhao Zhang shrank his head after being scolded by Zhou Yan.

Despite his usual calling of Brother Yan, Brother Yan, Zhou Yan's weight in his heart is not ordinary. There are so many teachers in the college, and he respects Zhou Yan the most.

"I'm not worried about you."

Zhou Yan pursed his lips and smiled, "If the American Film Institute knew you were so anxious, they would definitely give me the award."

Looking at this situation, Zhao Gao also knew that the result should not be out yet, so he said, "Then I will come back later?"

Zhou Yan waved his hand, "Don't leave, stay and wait for a while, otherwise you will die of panic."

"Oh, okay." Zhao Lao immediately became happy and went to carry the kettle diligently, "I'll add some hot water to Director Han."

About ten minutes later, the phone on Zhou Yan's desk suddenly rang.

Before Zhou Yan could move, Han Sanping and Zhao Gao moved first, both of them stretching their necks to look this way.

Seeing their looks, Zhou Yan smiled and picked up the phone.

"Hello?"

Yu Hua's voice came from the other end of the phone, "Is there any news from Oscar?"

Zhou Yan curled his lips and said, "Why are you paying attention to this?"

"Why can't I pay attention? We agreed before that if you want to win the prize, you have to treat us to a drink."

"Even if I don't win the prize, when will I stop drinking with you?"

"It feels different. You won the award and I drink your wine, which makes me feel more at ease."

"There's no news yet. When the news comes, I'll call you. We won't talk anymore."

"Okay, no more chatting, otherwise your phone will be busy."

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Yan said to Han Sanping and the others, "It's Yu Hua. He's also here to ask about Oscar."

Han Sanping and the others also heard what Zhou Yan said just now, and knew that it was not from the United States.

"It seems that we are not the only ones who care about this award."

"Yu Hua cares about whether there is wine to drink."

"Everyone who sees it will get a share. If I win the award, you have to treat me to a drink."

"I didn't ask..."

Before Zhou Yan finished speaking, the phone on the table rang again, and he picked it up.

It was Xiao Wu, Zhang Youan's assistant, who called. After listening to Xiao Wu's words, Zhou Yan nodded, "Yes, I know."

After that, he hung up the phone.

Zhao Lin couldn't wait to ask, "Is it the news from the United States?"

"Yes." Zhou Yan nodded, and then sighed, "Alas, what a pity."

Hearing Zhou Yan say this, Han Sanping and Zhao Lin were a little disappointed.

Although they knew that it was normal not to get this award, they still felt extremely disappointed. Such a good opportunity, I don't know when I will have to wait for the next time.

Just when Zhao Lin was about to say something to comfort Zhou Yan, he heard Zhou Yan say with a smile, "What a pity, I can't keep the wine in my house anymore."

Before Zhao Lin could react, Han Sanping next to him slapped the coffee table, making it tremble, "You kid! You're teasing us!"

Zhou Yan smiled and said, "It's all about the heartbeat, brother San, just tell me if it's exciting or not. The results are out, Sense and Sensibility won the Best Original Score."

Zhao Lin clenched his fists excitedly, "Great, great!"

He turned around twice, and then ran out quickly.

Before Zhou Yan asked him what he was doing, he heard his high-pitched voice from the corridor, "Extra, Extra, Teacher Zhou won the Oscar for Best Original Score!"

Zhao Lin's voice resounded throughout the building, and it was so penetrating that Zhou Yan wondered if this kid had gone to the vocal department to learn from him when he had nothing to do. (End of this chapter)