Chapter 383 Find a Female Singer Who Is Good at English

The day after Zhou Yan returned to Yenching, he went to school to meet his teacher Shi Wanchun first, and then went to the principal Liu Lin to report on his work.

When he arrived at Liu Lin's office, Vice President Wang Cizhao was also there.

Seeing Zhou Yan, Wang Cizhao said with a smile, "Zhou Yan, you're back."

Although Zhou Yan is the assistant to the dean, he spends less time in school and has less time to interact with Vice President Wang Cizhao.

When Zhou Yan was an undergraduate, Wang Cizhao was still in the Music Aesthetics Teaching and Research Department, and the two did not have much interaction.

"Well, I just came back yesterday, and today I came to report to the principal."

Wang Cizhao joked, "Why do we need you to report? We know what you are doing by reading the newspaper. This time your tour in the United States has been a great success, and our teachers and students are also very excited."

Although Zhou Yan has little contact with Wang Cizhao, he has some understanding of Wang Cizhao.

Wang Cizhao speaks frankly and generously, has a very high emotional intelligence, and has a good academic level. He is also very good at interpersonal relationships.

In fact, Wang Cizhao's experience is not that deep. Although he is almost 50 years old this year, he has only graduated for 13 years. He is the same generation as Tan Dun and his golden generation of composition department.

Because when he was in middle school, he happened to catch up with the special period and went to the Construction Corps to work as a farmer for ten years. When he was admitted to the Central Conservatory of Music in 1978, he was almost 30 years old.

But in just these 13 years, he climbed to the position of vice president, and he is also the vice president with the greatest hope of succeeding Liu Lin.

If nothing unexpected happens, Liu Lin will retire the year after next. If no one else emerges, the position of president will definitely belong to Wang Cizhao.

Although Wang Cizhao graduated from the Department of Music Theory, he is actually a member of the Composition Department. He has a good relationship with Yu Runyang and Wang Yuhe.

Naturally, he also regards Zhou Yan as his own.

Although Zhou Yan has never thought of forming cliques, he is in the rivers and lakes and cannot help himself. Even if you do nothing, someone will naturally divide you into factions.

In fact, doing nothing is equivalent to doing everything.

After Zhou Yan graduated, he never took the initiative to do anything in school. Whether he became the assistant to the department head or the assistant to the dean, others asked him to do it.

But he did not refuse. Since he did not refuse, people naturally thought that he was a member of the composition department, and he was the backbone of the composition department.

Principal Liu Lin smiled and said, "This time your ten concerts in the United States have also attracted a lot of attention in China. In the media reports, your concerts are hard to get tickets. Is this the real situation, or is the media exaggerating?"

"It is partly exaggerated, but it is basically true. The tickets for the ten concerts this time must have been sold out, and the response on the scene was also very good. In fact, the time is short, otherwise we can add a few more concerts."

"It doesn't matter, take it step by step. If you open ten concerts in the United States this year, you can open fifteen or even twenty concerts next year. What are your plans for the future? Director Shi told me before that you only have one professional elective course left this semester?"

Zhou Yan nodded, "After school starts, I have a new movie to shoot. If I open more classes, I am afraid it will delay the students."

"It's okay to do this, teaching work It is important, but you have more important things to do. So it is a wise choice to focus more on other important things while you are in the academic affairs department. However, this last elective course cannot be reduced. After all, you are a teacher after all. If you don't even teach a class, it is not justifiable. "

"I understand. As long as I have time, I will definitely give priority to the school's affairs. "

Liu Lin smiled and said, "Besides teaching students, you have nothing else to do in school for the time being. Although you are now the assistant to the dean, you don't have to care about the specific matters. I will leave everything to others. "

...

Zhou Yan sat in the principal's office for about half an hour. Although he said that he was going to report his work, they didn't talk about any work at all in this half hour.

After all, Zhou Yan didn't do much work in school last semester, and there was very little to report.

After coming out of the principal's office, Zhou Yan went directly to the studio.

I haven't been back for a while, and there are a lot of fragmented work piled up, especially the preparation and shooting of "Time Traveler", which is finally about to start officially.

He first called Liu Hang over and asked about the recent situation in the studio, and then pulled Xiao Can and Li Hong over for a brief meeting.

During this period, Zhou Yan was out, but Xiao Can and the others did not rest for a day, and were busy preparing for the filming of "Time Traveler".

Zhou Yan contacted various departments and learned about their recent progress.

After roughly understanding the progress of each department, Zhou Yan said to Li Hong, "Li Hong, according to the candidate list, invite the actors to come here for auditions."

"What time?" Li Hong asked.

"You decide the time. I can do it in the near future. Try to concentrate on a few days."

"Okay, I will contact you and give you a reply tomorrow morning at the latest."

Zhou Yan nodded and asked, "What is the current situation of the costumes?"

"Teacher Dong will come to contact you this Sunday."

He did not ask Dong Wenmiao what time he would come on Sunday, because he would also call Dong Wenmiao to ask about the situation later.

In fact, the costume design this time is nothing special. Because it is fashion, there are relatively few details that need to be paid attention to. Just pay attention to the characteristics of the characters. Zhou Yan and Dong Wenmiao also talked a lot on the phone before.

Moreover, Dong Wenmiao has the script of "Space Traveler" and even a small part of the storyboard. I think these things will be very helpful for her in designing the movie costumes.

Zhou Yan has always attached great importance to the costumes in movies, and always spends a lot of thought and money on them.

There are probably only a handful of domestic directors who can match Zhou Yan's spending on film costumes.

Of course, this refers to fashion movies, which are definitely not comparable to those costume movies.

Under normal circumstances, domestic directors pay little attention to clothing when filming modern dramas. Some directors even directly let the actors wear their own clothes.

Even if they have enough budget, they don’t want to spend money on it.

And Zhou Yan's money spent on costumes was not in vain. Especially when he was filming "The Sixth Sense", the costumes played a big role in why the heroine looked so good in the filming.

…

After the meeting with Xiao Can and the others, Zhou Yan returned to his office alone.

During the filming of his fourth feature film, he felt a lot more relaxed. As long as he gave a direction for many things, Xiao Can and the others would implement them, and they did a good job.

After resting for a while in the office, Zhou Yan called Xu Xiangjie from Huanyin again.

Xu Xiangjie was very happy when he received a call from Zhou Yan. He first congratulated Zhou Yan on his successful tour in the United States, and then reported to him the development of Wang Lihong and Mayday.

Both Wang Lihong and Mayday have signed with Phantom Music. Since the former is a "second-hand artist" and has just released a record, the company is basically still cooperating with the promotion of his new record.

Mayday is an amateur band. In the early stage, the company needs to spend time to find their position and then give them a complete development plan.

The plan has been made, and the time for their group performance has been determined, which is at the end of this month.

"Wang Lihong is still in Taiwan?" Zhou Yan asked.

"No, he just went to the United States, but he will be back in a few days. Once some things at the school are settled, he can come over."

Zhou Yan thought for a while and said, "Let him come directly to Yanjing and record "How Long Will I Love You"."

"Okay, I'll tell him."

"One more thing, I want to find a female singer who speaks good English. Do you have any recommendations for suitable candidates?"

"A female singer with good English? Are you going to record an episode for a new movie?"

"Um."

Xu Xiangjie smiled and said, "Okay, I'll sort it out and list a few candidates for you later."

"OK."

After saying this, Zhou Yan hung up the phone. There are many songs in "Time Traveler" that require both male and female vocals, and they also need to be in good English.

Zhou Yan's idea is to search domestically first. If he can't find a suitable one, he can also give the songs to European and American singers to sing. Anyway, the episode of his movie is to break into the European and American markets and mix in a few European and American singers. , the songs are also a little easier to play.

Because there are a lot of pop songs in this movie, when he plans to release the movie soundtrack, he will follow the routine of pop singers releasing albums and create a few hit songs, which will hit the charts in Europe and the United States, and maybe even get a number one single. song.

…

After Xu Xiangjie hung up Zhou Yan's phone, he sat in a chair and thought for a while, then called Zhang Gengyu, the boss of Foremost Records.

After Zhang Gengyu received Xu Xiangjie's call, he said with a smile, "Mr. Xu, if you don't go to the Three Treasures Hall for anything, you want to poach people from our company again, right?"

"Mr. Zhang is joking, I'm here to seek cooperation with you."

"Cooperation?" Zhang Gengyu became interested.

One of the main reasons why he readily handed over Wang Lihong to Huanyin was because he wanted to cooperate with Huanyin. Now that he heard that Xu Xiangjie wanted to cooperate, he was of course happy.

"Didn't you say before that you were the agent for Kelly Chen's Mandarin records? She studied in the United States before, so she should have no problem singing English songs, right?"

"Of course, her English is very good and she has no problem singing English songs. Why do you ask, Mr. Xu?"

"We may have English songs that need to be sung here, and we want to find a female singer with good English. You mentioned Kelly Chen last time, so I came to you as soon as possible."

Zhang Gengyu raised his eyebrows and asked tentatively, "Is it a song from Zhou Yan's new movie?"

It’s no wonder that Zhang Gengyu would speculate on this. After all, when Wang Lihong was still at Foremost Records, he had already negotiated with Zhou Yan about singing a new movie episode, and that episode was an English song.

Now Xu Xiangjie called and said that he was looking for a female singer who could sing in English. Of course, he thought of this.

Although Zhang Gengyu guessed it, Xu Xiangjie did not give him a definite answer. He just smiled and said, "Since Kelly Chen can sing English songs, I made her a backup candidate."

Hearing that Xu Xiangjie only regarded Kelly Chen as an alternative, Zhang Gengyu hurriedly said, "Kelly Chen will definitely have no problem singing English songs. Otherwise, I will send you a sample of her singing English songs this afternoon."

Since Zhang Gengyu said so, Xu Xiangjie naturally would not refuse. He nodded and agreed, "That's okay, then please send someone to send the sample. I will make a decision after hearing it."

…

Here Zhang Gengyu got up and walked out of the office again and found Li Yaming.

"Yaming, are you busy?"

Li Yaming was originally listening to the demos of songs that the company had recently received. When he heard Zhang Gengyu's voice, he looked up and said, "I'm listening to the new songs that have been received. What do you want to talk to me about?"

Zhang Gengyu didn't rush to say what he wanted to say, but walked over and looked at the music sheet first, "How is it, have you received any good songs?"

Li Yaming shook his head, "It's not that easy. There are quite a few songs sent in the recent period. It seems that more and more people can write songs, but there are not many high-quality songs. Most of them are still very similar."

Their company produces songs for its singers, either by asking those well-known musicians to invite songs, or like this, waiting for others to deliver them to their door.

There are also many types of these door-to-door deliveries.

Some are behind-the-scenes musicians who have signed with the company, but they are not famous. They send songs everywhere to promote themselves. Some are not in the music circle at all. They just play music for a few years and want to write songs for singers.

Many of the songs that their company receives every month are even sent by the fans of the singers.

Some fans were generous enough to send the songs over and claim that they would not charge any fees.

But such songs are usually useless because they are basically garbage.

Some people blatantly plagiarized some classic songs and changed them slightly before sending them over.

As the head of the Mandarin department, Li Yaming insisted on listening to all the songs he received, just because he was worried that there would be pearls left in the ocean. However, he failed to find any pearls left, and his ears were tortured every day.

Zhang Gengyu said with a smile, "You don't have to have too high expectations for this kind of thing. It's more reliable to ask someone to invite you for songs."

"Maybe you can find a bargain?" Li Yaming shrugged and asked, "Why did you come to me?"

Zhang Gengyu then talked about business, "Do you have a demo of Kelly Chen singing an English song?"

Li Yaming looked puzzled, "Yes, yes, what do you want it for?"

"It's like this..."

Zhang Gengyu simply narrated the matter to Li Yaming, who thought for a moment and said, "The demo is not very good. I think if you really want those songs, you can ask her to record another one separately."

Hearing what Li Yaming said, Zhang Gengyu also felt that it made sense. And because the Mandarin album is about to be released, Kelly Chen is now in Taiwan, so it is easy to ask her to come over. (End of this chapter)