1980 My Entertainment Era

Chapter 127 Summer: Win outside the playground!
When she got home, Xia's mother was still wondering: How come you can bring back so many local specialties in one trip? This wolf skin is really good!
Xia Tian: It was given to me by my new good brothers and friends at the horse farm...

After returning to Yanjing, Xia Tian took the initiative to take care of the white dragon horse.

Of course, I can’t raise it at home, so I’m on a farm in the suburbs.

It’s not far, just twenty minutes by bike.

It would be faster if I rode a horse.
In summer, I ride my bike to see the place every day and take a ride on the white dragon horse. On the one hand, it is fun, and on the other hand, it is fun to let the horse run.

This is not a horse for pulling carts, this is a military horse! You can't keep it tied up all the time.

Director Yang has been looking for Xia Tian more frequently these days, coming every two or three days, sometimes to discuss something, and sometimes to give him a small task.

For example, find a craftsman who makes clay figures!

In the summer, I contacted a clay figurine named Zhang through an old man named Sun who taught ventriloquism. I showed him some of my drawings and he said that Zhang could make a clay figurine for me in just a few days!

And it’s colored!

If this is fired into pottery, wouldn't it be a figurine? !

Xia Tian: This set of things is mine. Even if Aunt Yang comes, she can’t take it away from me. I say that!

Director Yang is busy every day with the preparations for the Journey to the West crew. And his wife is also a photographer.

Now I am learning the wire-hanging technique from the martial arts master from Hong Kong.

Xia Tian also became familiar with him. According to cameraman Wang, "People in Hong Kong are very arrogant..."

In order to learn technology, I had to swallow my anger.

But the good news is that the camera is on the way.

In Hong Kong, Lou Xiao'e contacted a company in the film and television industry and found an old model camera that could be rented out.

As a result, Xia Tian wanted to transfer money, but Lou Xiao'e's father, Mr. Lou, was very generous - he had already bought it and gave it to the Journey to the West crew for free!
It is said that we are making a small contribution to the literature and art of the motherland!

Look, look~what is the pattern? !
Xia Tian said that he would ask the director to give thanks after the TV series!
Win-win~
Speaking of which, the Lou family’s business in Hong Kong is not that big. It cannot be compared with those wealthy businessmen, but it is much bigger than ordinary merchant companies.

After all, he was already a big capitalist when the country was founded, and was qualified to be a big boss in public-private partnership.

When I went to Hong Kong, I brought boxes of small yellow croaker with me.
Although the business is now mainly handled by his eldest son, Mr. Lou still has his heart set on the mainland.

I took some time in the summer to publish "Wild Geese".

As for "The Ballad of the Steed", let's keep it for now.

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When they learned that there was another camera, Director Yang’s wife, Teacher Wang Chongqiu, almost cried with joy!

CCTV only gave us one camera. How difficult must that be!
With only one camera, it is impossible to shoot from multiple angles at the same time. Many shots have to be shot repeatedly by changing the camera position, which increases the workload several times!
There are also special effects, flying, smoke and fire, etc...

There are too many difficulties!
The reason why the CCTV version of "Journey to the West" has become a classic is largely because it is an art film rather than a commercial film.

Yang Jie is both the director and the screenwriter, and a large part of the credit for this masterpiece goes to her!
We managed to make this classic despite facing so much pressure and difficulties!
It is because of her pursuit of excellence that this drama has become a classic.

Xia Tian is also much happier because she can make some contribution to Journey to the West.

Moreover, the way of thanking the film after the film seemed to have inspired Director Yang. She "dug a hole in the door to find connections" and actually attracted more than 300,000 in friendly sponsorship!
Although it’s not the kind of “investment sponsorship” mentioned in the summer, it’s also a good start!

Director Yang: Since Tang Monk and his disciples went west by begging for alms, why can't the crew of Journey to the West do the same? !

Director Yang has already made plans, he will put on makeup wherever the filming takes place!
I'll let the monkey do somersaults for you~
We took a group photo and promoted it in the newspaper!
We will put on a show for you and hold a gala!
How dare you not provide any convenience or support?

I have learned bad things. I have learned bad things.
Xia Tian: It’s not easy to learn well, but it’s easy to learn bad things~
Xia Tian also found his old friend Li Chengru and brought him to the Journey to the West crew.

"Aunt Yang, I've brought the person to you! Let me put it this way, if you have any external liaison work, just give it to Chengru. I can make the living ones dead and the dead ones alive. I'll do the job for you!"

"But there is one thing! Chengru is also an actor, you have to assign him a role, big or small, but there must be one~"

Director Yang looked at Li Chengru and said, "Don't worry, if you really work hard as you said, there will be plenty of roles!"

She thought to herself: This boy seems smart, but with this look... I'm afraid he has to play a monster!
Li Chengru was still excited. He held Xia Tian's hand and shook it: "No need to say anything. We are brothers!"

He didn't know that in the director's eyes, he was already a monster!

Xia Tian told Director Yang about the "one place, one begging" plan he had discussed with him.

After hearing this, Li Chengru was shocked!

How to contact local units, how to meet leaders, how to persuade - such as national publicity, appearing on TV and newspapers, contributing to local publicity work, and being thanked at the end of the film...

That’s a lot of tricks!
There are also manufacturing attractions, publicity units, and so on.

In short, try to arrange the crew's schedule and needs in advance. Anyway, the sponsorship cannot stop!
The shooting took too long, and everyone’s original intention remained unchanged. Prices don’t care about you... Remember in summer, there has been a wave of skyrocketing prices in the past two years!
"Tian'er! What's wrong with your head? You are plucking hair from a human being!" He gave a thumbs up.

Xia Tian stared at his face, and for a moment she couldn't tell whether he was praising her or insulting her.

This guy is really good at acting!
"Also, Director Yang has another task for you. You need to go to the filming location in advance and visit various theater troupes, art troupes, song and dance troupes to find beautiful actresses to play gods, monsters, or something like that!"

"Ha~ There is such a good job?!" Li Chengru rubbed his hands excitedly.

Xia Tian also discussed the script and shooting plan with Director Yang.

Summer means taking more photos and taking faster photos!

Shooting more means shooting as many episodes as possible, more content is always better.

Although a sequel was definitely going to be made, after all, there were too many eighty-one difficulties and it couldn’t be filmed all at once, so it had to be filmed again after it became popular.

The original time and space was also planned to be 30 episodes. CCTV ordered "Journey to the West" to stop filming. After several efforts, Director Yang finally found funds on his own in exchange for CCTV's consent to continue filming.

Finally, we found a loan of 3 million from the 11th Railway Bureau, and at the same time we had to compress the original plan to 25 episodes.

This time, I’m going to go for episode 35 for the first time!
During the filming, you can throw out behind-the-scenes footage and publicity from time to time.

But you can’t shoot and broadcast at the same time. If you don’t do it in one go, there will definitely be problems.

Try to do as much work as possible in the early stages and complete it in one go.

And they have to complain to their superiors and communicate with newspapers, TV stations, etc. - the crying child gets the milk.
"Talk more to media friends and the general public about the difficulties of filming and the hard work we went through."

"There's nothing to be embarrassed about. We're not exaggerating!"

“We need to make the audience feel involved and keep an eye on our progress. Of course, the final work must be excellent, otherwise it will be torn to pieces by the audience!”

Director Yang looked at Xia Tian and said, "You really should go to the propaganda field and be a leader!"

Xia Tian didn't say much about the actors, but just offered Dachun the possibility of playing a minor role.

Dachun was very excited to see himself on TV.

He has been interested in TV series for a long time!
As for the other actors, Director Yang has already found actors for Guanyin and Tathagata.

The Guanyin is Teacher Zuo Daying, and the Tathagata is Zhu Longguang.

These two Guanyin and Tathagata are truly deeply rooted in people’s hearts!

Teacher Zhu also played Gao Chuanbao in "Tunnel Warfare", which was screened many times in the summer.

Later, Mr. Zhu became Tong Xiangyu's father.
Director Yang was very humble in asking Xia Tian for advice on music and even wanted him to be responsible!

How can this work?

It would be fine if I could compose a few tunes or write a song in the summer, but the work of composing music is very tedious and important, and I can't take it on myself.

This stuff requires a degree from a major, or requires many years of work.

Xia Tian suggested: "Aunt Yang, why don't we do an open call for submissions? Just treat it as our first test run! Let interested musicians submit their works, and we'll select the best. We'll also see if there's any style that suits your taste!"

"It's a mythological drama, so the style is relaxed!"

Xia Tian hopes that Mr. Xu Jingqing will submit his article!
To this end, he teamed up with Director Yang and mobilized their connections to spread the news - other people's casting can be published in the newspapers, so why can't I find musicians to compose the music?
We are also looking for actors to play the roles of Bajie and Sha Seng.

Xia Tian contacted all the magazines to which he had submitted his articles, and also found Liu Chunlai and Fang Xiaoyan.

Fang Xiaoyan was very interested in Xia Tian's promotional strategy and even offered to join.

Xia Tian looked at the excited faces of the girls and thought: This is simply the innate holy body of news!
I studied journalism!

On June 6, Xia Tian read on the news that a military unit was being formed...

When I went to the group, Aunt Wang asked, "Xiaotian, why haven't you come to the group to play recently?"

Could it be that you have surrendered to the enemy?
Xia Tian complained: "Auntie, I'm busy, why am I not studying?"

The classes are quite leisurely, mainly because there are too many after-school activities.

Martial arts, painting, calligraphy, music, Go, and even giving advice to the crew of Journey to the West, you see how busy I am.

Xia Tian: I will roll them to death~
Others won at the starting line, but I won when the stadium was built!

What a win!
It’s the last day, friends who have monthly tickets don’t forget to vote~it’s about to expire!

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