Chapter 36: The Program Team’s Move Is Too Ruthless
Good acting skills don’t mean good performance.
This sounds a bit like the left and right brain fighting each other, but Yu Wei gained a deep cognition of this during the filming process…
He perfectly mastered the acting skills of the male lead in Sound Mixer, but during the performance, he only managed to resemble him, far from reaching the level of “being the character himself.”
Those real film and television classics, on the other hand, show no traces of performance, more like the role themselves being present in person.
In the end, art is human art. No matter how many numerical values and experience points the System gives him, true seamless integration still requires him to go through it himself.
But for Yu Wei now, exquisite technique is already sufficient. True emotional resonance and infusing soul still need to come step by step.
Moreover, actors don’t need to resonate with every role, otherwise they’ll go crazy sooner or later…
Yu Wei’s performance greatly shocked Qi Luo An and the others. After all, just a couple of days ago he couldn’t even understand the MV, but during the short film’s filming, he could even reverse the order and guide others in performance.
Compared to progress, this was more like being cursed.
Although Sound Mixer’s filming difficulty was greater than the MV, because Yu Wei’s performance was like a substitute player, the entire process was instead smoother.
Everyone couldn’t understand this logic, so they temporarily understood it as “screenwriter bonus.” After all, the script was written by him, so perhaps the creator has a deeper understanding of the role…
In the final scene, Yu Wei played piano naked, pretending to be completely unaware of the danger behind him. He knew he shouldn’t move his eyeballs or reveal the slightest visual trace.
But the instinct of fear was so powerful that those eyes pretending to be blind were firmly nailed to the eerie and terrifying image in the reflection.
In the mirror, Qi Luo An’s figure was silently approaching him step by step. Her gaze was empty yet sharp, tightly locking onto Yu Wei’s lowered back of the head.
“Cut!”
At the moment of officially wrapping up, Yu Wei finally released his tense emotions, his whole body even somewhat limp.
Even though he only immersed a little, he could feel that fear up close, mainly because Qi Luo An’s gaze was too fierce, not like acting…
Should failure authors die?
“I didn’t notice during filming just now, you have abdominal muscles?”
Qi Luo An fiddled with her hair, her gaze casually glancing down. She was actually indifferent to it, just happened to notice.
“Temporarily still have.”
As a trainee, although Yu Wei was useless at everything, his physical fitness was still decent. He would exercise whenever he had nothing to do.
But after becoming a web novel author, he probably would have no connection with exercise, turning back into an otaku was just a matter of time…
Anyway, among the colleagues Yu Wei knew, big and small, all had some occupational disease. From health index and morbidity rate, author is even a high-risk profession.
After Sound Mixer filming was completed, what remained was the long post-production and editing stage, which Yu Wei couldn’t help with, only continuously follow up and give suggestions.
This kind of thing is hard to be perfect, but he still hoped to get as close as possible to the original work…
Lu Zhou and Zhang Lingye originally wanted to have a wrap party, but were rejected by both Yu Wei and Qi Luo An. They were busy.
In the recent days due to filming, the plot rhythm of Yu Wei’s novel was extremely slow, which was a devastating blow for an entertainment novel.
He didn’t dare say for other genres, but entertainment rhythm must not be slow. Even for daily life stories, the protagonist can’t stay in place.
This time Yu Wei already knew what to write: I Am a Singer-songwriter, a program focused on original music competition. Compared to head-on competition, it actually emphasizes more on the collision of inspiration.
What is good original music itself has no standard answer. The program is a process of exploration, and Wei Yu will also have a deeper understanding of scoring.
Which is more important, lyrics or melody? How to balance listenability and art? Which is superior, technique or emotion…
Art works are not just good or bad, not just masterpiece and trash. Scores are just a reference; the protagonist should also have more comprehensive thinking.
“They all say my plagiarism is clickbait, right? This time I’m really plagiarizing.”
He planned to return to traditional plagiarist this time, directly writing popular works from Blue Star, but not for the protagonist to sing, instead let other contestants sing.
As for Wei Yu, he still sings Earth’s songs.
The readers here are definitely more familiar with other guests’ songs, then they would think, how will Wei Yu respond? Hey, then Wei Yu sings a song no one has heard.
Plagiarist entertainment novels all have the protagonist copying ready-made ones, side characters casually made up. This time he reverses it: side characters use ready-made songs, protagonist continues to “create”…
Entertainment novels written like this would absolutely be a huge poison point, but he’s different. He really has songs, and many choices.
“Can’t pick too classic songs to write, otherwise easy to cause controversy.”
Yu Wei couldn’t just randomly stir up trouble. He knew how to pick according to the dish. He planned to pick internet celebrity songs that were already controversial or even accused of plagiarism, then ruthlessly strike them down!
As long as the works he brings out are strong enough, he’s still downwind outside the field.
Yu Wei really wasn’t acting on a whim. During these days of filming, he had been thinking why his novel was such a failure.
Skill level insufficient was one thing; on the other hand, this book of his lacked immersion.
Entertainment novels need immersion. Whether Chinese Entertainment or plagiarist, it’s actually a kind of cultural identity, identity towards excellent works.
But his Why Do Stars Care So Much About Ratings? didn’t have it, because the protagonist’s songs were equivalent to original, hard for everyone to directly immerse.
If Yu Wei also wrote in real-world songs, it would be different. Readers see, hey this song is indeed average, but not something any tomcat or dog can beat. I want to see how you win…
With immersion, they will expect the subsequent plot, right? Then readers see, damn, Wei Yu is actually really confronting the entertainment industry?
“Everyone will soon know the book is written by me.”
During Heart Wall, readers thought it was coincidence, but HELLO Roommate episode seven is about to air soon. After hearing Sound of Rain, everyone will definitely fully understand.
The program is only airing episode six tonight, which is content from one week before Yu Wei’s recording. After this episode ends, the next episode’s preview will be released.
After Yu Wei finished typing, with nothing to do, he simply opened bullet comments and took a look.
Episode six’s theme is “losing money.” Coconut Milk accidentally tore the small dwelling’s sofa, then landlady Teacher Zhong made them collectively contribute to compensate, ten game coins.
The following content was the variety show favorite of doing tasks. The six people desperately worked to earn money, messing around for a week.
“No wonder when I first arrived that day they were so pained hearing about rent collection… Turns out they were squeezed dry in the previous episode.”
Yu Wei thought he would only appear in the preview, but ended up appearing at the end of the program.
The sunlight was just right with a gentle breeze, he knocked on the small dwelling’s door, and met eyes with the bewildered Tong Yulu, then episode six abruptly ended with his arrival.
The program team left a hook quite professionally, comparable to web novel authors.
Yu Wei was teasing the program team when the episode seven trailer directly gave him a critical hit. It started with him typing in the house.
Then the scene switched to others working, then cut back, giving a close-up of him typing in the room.
Repeatedly switching back and forth several times, bullet comments were full of question marks: no matter how others’ scenes change, why is Yu Wei always typing?
Yu Wei didn’t expect himself to have so many camera shots, and without exception all were him typing in the room.
The contrast shot lasted a full minute, which is program effect maxed out. The audience seeing this was more bewildered than the last: this buddy came on the program to write a thesis?
Before they could react, the trailer’s final scene suddenly changed style, precisely Yu Wei playing guitar and singing for other guests.
Then the program announced episode seven’s theme: How is a song born?
Obviously, the program team planned to open episode seven from Yu Wei’s perspective. After all, content-wise, he was indeed the core of this episode.
This trailer was full of highlights. The front used a full minute of contrast shots to show Yu Wei’s “maverick,” and only at the end revealed he was creating.
The program title was more like a question: How is a song born? So Yu Wei clacking away in front of the computer was writing a song?
This trailer, not to mention the audience being curious what he was doing, even Yu Wei himself wanted to watch it again.
“The program team this move is too ruthless, using me as a comma?”
