readsfreenovel Chapter 237 Just Consider the Unfilial Son Dead 4
Chapter 237 Just Consider the Unfilial Son Dead 4
Without signing with a company, it's difficult to find established singers to collaborate with, and you also lack promotional channels, which greatly impacts your future career advancement.
The only downside to signing with a company is that a lot of the money has to be shared. Of course, if you are truly talented, the company's commission will decrease as you advance in rank. If you can become a "signing agent," the company will not only not share your money, but will also give you a substantial signing bonus every year.
The forum also occasionally hosts competitions organized by entertainment companies to select talent, as well as job postings from small and medium-sized enterprises.
For example, some advertising companies need a theme song for an advertisement, but their budget is very limited. If they hand it over to an entertainment company, the company won't be interested in that small amount of money and will only assign it to a novice lyricist or composer. That's not much different from finding someone from a forum, and finding someone from a forum is even cheaper. Some film and television soundtracks are also done this way.
With her professional certification, Liu Yuxi started browsing the tasks on the forum. She skipped all the advertising jingle tasks; who in their right mind would bother to trace the origins of the background music in an advertisement, unless it was sung by an established singer? Hoping to become famous through advertising jingles was out of the question; these were mainly the targets of songwriters who were short of money.
She focused her efforts on films and television dramas that lacked funding. When she posted the project, she would include a synopsis of the plot and the names of the lead actors for the songwriters to reference.
Once you decide to take on this task, you can write a song based on the story synopsis, have someone record a demo, and then send it to the production team. If the team thinks your song is good, there's a possibility of continuing the collaboration.
Both parties will meet to sign a confidentiality agreement. The production team will give you a detailed script or let you watch the finished film. Then you will do some secondary creation. There are songs that can be written based on the story outline and perfectly match the plot, but they are rare. Basically, secondary creation is required.
Once the TV series or movie is released, your song can start charting on the new song charts. The success of your song depends on its quality, as well as the promotion and quality of the TV series or movie.
If you choose a hit dark horse drama, the songs from that drama might boost your career, creating a win-win situation. Of course, if the drama you choose isn't good, and your songs aren't good either, then you've just earned some extra money.
After reading the forum, Liu Yuxi initially selected three films, all of which were low-budget productions: a campus romance film, a film about entrepreneurship, and a martial arts film. All of these films were produced when the production teams were short of funds.
The fact that these three projects were not marked as "(completed)" indicates that the production team has not yet found suitable works. Liu Yuxi has read the synopsis of these three projects and feels that if the screenwriter, director, and actors are all competent, they should be more outstanding than other projects that have been put forward.
Based on these three plot outlines, she selected six songs and registered the copyrights. After all, isn't one theme song and one incidental song standard for a movie? Besides, submitting two songs increases the chances of them being selected!
Then she started digging through the database she had built over the past two years of researching singers who released music online. She found singers who were suitable for these songs, sent them messages with the lyrics and music, and left her own email address.
Then she waited for the singers' replies. If they were willing to sing, they would record a demo and send it over. Liu Yuxi would listen to it and choose the singer she was most satisfied with. Once the singer was chosen, Liu Yuxi could choose whether to send the demo directly to the production team or contact the singer to find a recording studio to re-record a version and send it to the production team.
After deciding on the cast, Liu Yuxi went to a recording studio to re-record the songs, because even if these three dramas didn't choose her songs, she still had to release them, which would cost her a lot of money.
All songs on the platform can be listened to for free three times. If you want to listen to them again, you have to spend one to three yuan to download them. The price of a single song depends on the star's status and the entertainment company's requirements.
Songwriters and singers like Liu Yuxi, who are currently unknown and have no company to promote them, generally choose to price their songs at one yuan each. This one yuan is split 50/50 with the platform. As for the remaining 50 cents, how the singer and songwriter split it depends on the agreement they have to negotiate and sign beforehand.
The songs Liu Yuxi chose all corresponded to the plot outline and were also very popular. Anyone with a little common sense could see the excellence of the songs. Therefore, all the singers she invited recorded demos and sent them to her email. Some sent them that same night, and the latest they sent them was the afternoon of the next day. In fact, most of them replied directly saying that they did not want a share of the profits.
There are very few opportunities for an unknown singer to sing a good song. Most singers choose not to share the profits before they become famous. Even for famous singers, it depends on the level of the songwriter they collaborate with. If it is the work of a superstar, then even a king or queen of the music industry has to consider whether they can accept the profits.
Liu Yuxi listened to all the demos one by one, consulted the original singers, and finally selected five people because one of them was suitable for two of the songs.
I contacted five people and told them that I needed them to come to Beijing to record some songs and sign some agreements. In addition to the download revenue from the song distribution platform, the copyright fees that the singers need to pay for performing these songs, as well as how to distribute the commercial revenue generated by performing these songs, all need to be agreed upon in advance. There are all kinds of mature revenue sharing agreements in this world, and I can just download templates from the Internet.
After exchanging contact information with the five people and agreeing to meet at the lobby of the Kailai Hotel near her neighborhood at 3 pm the next day, Liu Yuxi went out to find something to eat. Even in similar times and spaces, the taste of various snacks cannot be exactly the same. Over the years, Liu Yuxi's enthusiasm for food has never diminished. She is very happy whenever she eats something delicious.
The next day, Liu Yuxi arrived at the lobby of the Kailai Hotel at 2:30 p.m. and waited for the five people to arrive. Then he led them to a meeting room in the hotel.
There were five people, three men and two women. Through conversation, Liu Yuxi learned about their specific information. Lin Ling'er, female, 20 years old, with an ethereal voice, was a third-year student at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music. Liu Yuxi arranged for her to sing the theme song "In a Hurry" for a campus movie and the theme song "Sighing for Beauty" for a martial arts movie.
Li Moxuan, male, 21 years old, has a standard love song voice with a unique youthful tone, making him highly recognizable. He is a third-year student at the Beijing Conservatory of Music. Liu Yuxi arranged for him to sing the theme song "Those Years" for a campus movie.
Wang Zihan, female, 22 years old, has a clear voice and a wide vocal range. She is not from a music academy and currently works as a receptionist at a company. Liu Yuxi arranged for her to sing the theme song "Dream" for an entrepreneurial movie.
Liu Hanyu, male, 21 years old, with a deep voice, is also a junior in college, but he is studying architecture. Liu Yuxi arranged for him to sing the theme song "Jianghu" for a martial arts movie.
Zhao Lei, male, 23 years old, with a rock-and-roll husky voice. Just by listening to his voice, you would never guess he is only 23. He has the worst appearance among the five people, and can only be described as having an average appearance. He works as a laborer on a construction site and has not received any professional training. You can tell that he is very nervous.
Liu Yuxi told him directly that he should sing the theme song "Riding the Wind" for the entrepreneurial movie. Upon hearing Liu Yuxi's words, Zhao Lei was so excited that his voice trembled slightly, "Teacher Liu, I will definitely sing it well!"
(The author is bad at naming songs, and most of the song titles are directly borrowed from songs on Earth. If you can match them up, you can imagine them based on the original songs and singers, but just remember that these songs didn't exist in the female lead's original timeline!)