UGB Chapter 895 Album Discussion
Chapter 895 Album Discussion
Chapter 895 Album Discussion
Inside the Xingyuan Entertainment Company building.
Having just finished a series of promotional activities for the movie, Jiang Yuanben was on vacation until the Spring Festival.
I just stayed at home in Shanghai for two days, and after thinking it over, I decided to come to the company.
It was also in the company's recording studio that he and Deng Ge worked on the post-production of the music.
The content of the work is also The Princess' latest comeback EP.
The preliminary recording work has been completed, and Jiang Yuan and Deng Ge are now going to work on the mixing of the songs.
“Think of the music as being played in a three-dimensional space, with so many tracks already recorded.”
“What we are responsible for is to confirm the position and volume of each track to achieve the best listening effect.”
Although they were said to be jointly responsible, more emphasis was placed on Deng Ge’s explanation to Jiang Yuan.
After all, before this, Jiang Yuan had participated in post-production work mostly relying on his own ears.
This is also a point that Deng Ge has praised many times. There are very few singers who are as sensitive as Jiang Yuan and can hear the difference between different versions with one ear.
For The Princess's two newest songs, Jiang Yuan also wanted to try to see if he could achieve some musical effects through his own participation.
The choice of mixing will have a relatively large impact on the final work.
"I've long felt that you are very suitable to work with me in mixing." After giving a brief explanation, Deng Ge couldn't help but say to Jiang Yuan with some emotion.
For example, when he was making albums in the past, Jiang Yuan would note the different musical effects he wanted for each song.
This is just like knowing exactly what kind of images and filters you want in the later stages of a movie, which helps Deng Ge make a lot of choices in advance when mixing.
Just like the mixing of The Princess' new EP, this is Jiang Yuanming's first time participating in such post-production work, which has indeed greatly improved the efficiency of the mixing work.
"By the way, you said before that you would hold a special meeting on the new album. Is it today?" After a while, Deng Ge asked Jiang Yuan.
"It's today, but the time is set for the evening." Jiang Yuan said after looking at his watch.
After confirming that the production of a second English album was one of the New Year's plans, Jiang Yuan thought about it and decided to hold an album production meeting during the free time before the New Year.
We are not in a rush and want to determine the direction of the album production through a single meeting.
I just want to use this meeting to advance the progress of the album production.
At least we can complete some preliminary preparations for the album production in advance, which will facilitate subsequent work.
"Are you going to make a bigger album this time, like the last one?" Deng Ge asked with great interest.
Currently at Xingyuan Entertainment, Deng Ge’s annual work targets depend on Jiang Yuan to be completed.
Every time after completing the production of an album with Jiang Yuan, Deng Ge would feel a sense of accomplishment that his career has become more complete.
Hearing the question asked by Deng Ge, Jiang Yuan also fell into deep thought.
The album size that Deng Ge asked about actually refers to the number of songs included in the album.
A regular official album usually has ten to twelve singles, which is already a complete composition.
Like European and American albums, for example Jiang Yuan’s previous album, it was an album with nearly twenty singles, so Deng Ge asked this question.
Jiang Yuan thought for a moment and shook his head. "I haven't thought it through yet. Maybe after the album meeting, I might have some ideas."
In general, Jiang Yuan hasn't yet fully figured out what style of album he wants to produce.
Naturally, I haven't thought about which singles will be included in this album.
For example, the single plan for each month is purely based on the mood of that month.
Now it's time for integration, and it really requires some thought.
Upon hearing this, Deng Ge wanted to say something, but when he thought about the album meeting starting later, he would naturally say everything he needed to say, so he didn't mind taking a little longer.
"The new variety show you participated in today seems to be about to be broadcast. I saw a lot of billboards on the way here." Deng Ge swiped his phone and asked Jiang Yuan.
“There are actually billboards?” Jiang Yuan was stunned. He didn’t expect that “Travel with Flowers” would devote so many promotional resources to a special.
"Yes, didn't you notice it when you came? There is a relatively large one at the intersection of our street. I wanted to take a picture of it when I passed by before." Deng Ge replied.
After hearing what Deng Ge said, Jiang Yuan also took out his mobile phone and started checking it.
In the group chat of the "Flower Travel" program team that I joined earlier, there were a lot of messages today. Jiang Yuan was also @ed, saying that he hoped to forward more official blog posts from the program team to promote it.
After looking through some chat records, Jiang Yuan did see the efforts made by the program team to promote this special, including the large-screen advertisements just mentioned by Deng Ge, which were basically in the central areas of big cities such as Shanghai and Beijing, as well as some subway stations.
The number of screens shown is quite astonishing at first glance.
Even though there are many screens that make up a large screen, it can be seen how much importance the program crew attaches to this promotion.
It should be a considerable expense, Jiang Yuan thought, and logged into his accounts on some social platforms, and forwarded two more promotional messages.
At this point in time, the first feature film of the "Flower Travel" special has officially been launched.
I haven’t watched many travel variety shows like “Travel in Style” before, and since I was participating in it myself, I was curious about how the show would be edited. Jiang Yuan also searched for the show and clicked to play.
"Do you want to watch that show?" Deng Ge finished the work at hand and moved closer to Jiang Yuan.
"Let's take a look." When Jiang Yuan answered, the video had already started playing on the phone screen.
I have to say that this special program has a lot of presence, not only in the splash screen advertisement of the video software, but also in the top position on the software's homepage.
At the same time, the opening of the first feature film is also very special. It is not the usual design of previous programs, but a concept short film specially edited for Jiang Yuan and others based on the movie style of "Detective Chinatown".
"That's great. Sometimes when I see this kind of program, I want to try it out." Deng Ge watched from the side and couldn't help but sigh.
"Did anyone invite you?" Jiang Yuan asked curiously.
Deng Ge was silent for two seconds. "Your question is a bit presumptuous. If someone had invited me, I would have participated a long time ago."
"That's right." Jiang Yuan nodded, thinking that this made sense. Even though Deng Ge had appeared at many award ceremonies in the past two years, he didn't look like the type of person who would be invited to a travel variety show.
"But is there any difference between this purely travel variety show and the "World Songs" you participated in before?" Deng Ge's sad mood came and went quickly, and then he asked curiously.
"Hmm." Jiang Yuan pondered for a moment, thought and compared carefully, and then began to answer.
"It will definitely be like 'World Songs' which will be more free and have fewer camera positions."
“Sometimes I can even leave the program crew and go out on my own.” Jiang Yuan recalled that "World Songs" is essentially a music variety show, so the main part is the performance.
But the variety show "Flower Travel" is different. The main program content is supported by travel clips, so it is normal to have more corresponding cameras.
But if you are traveling, then "World Songs" is obviously more comfortable.
"But for something like "Travel in Style", some travel guides will be prepared in advance, so each has its pros and cons." Jiang Yuan made a simple comparison.
Deng Ge heard this, thought about it, and shook his head, "Then I'm still not suitable for this kind of program."
"You'll get used to it the more you participate." Jiang Yuan thought for a moment and replied.
Up to now, I have basically adapted to the recording mode of variety shows and can perform more naturally in front of the camera.
After a cinematic opening sequence, the opening scene is when He Jing receives the mission card in the hotel.
After seeing how He Jing received the mission and went to the airport, what followed was what Jiang Yuan experienced personally.
But after being edited and put on the show, there will still be some different feelings.
Jiang Yuan has gotten used to being under the camera, and seeing himself on the show is even more of a piece of cake.
On the contrary, I think it’s good to have a program that records the scenes at that time. After all, human memory is limited.
What Jiang Yuan didn't expect was that the cut of himself being the director was released on the show and it actually looked quite interesting.
This is especially true when the expressions and actions of other people at the time are magnified and accompanied by some music.
Jiang Yuan thought about it and glanced at Deng Ge's reaction beside him, and found that he was indeed quite happy to see it.
The main film in the first special issue happens to be the journey in which Jiang Yuan serves as a tour guide, with a detective game interspersed in the middle.
It is also a review of the filming journey. After editing, the whole journey looks very compact and meaningful.
It seemed that after Deng Ge saw half of it, he exclaimed that this trip to Bangkok seemed very fulfilling.
"Do you think it's possible for our company to organize a travel variety show like this in the future and let the company's artists participate together?" As he watched, Deng Ge asked Jiang Yuan this question.
"You don't want to join in as well, do you?" Jiang Yuan guessed Deng Ge's intention after a little thought.
"If possible, that would be great." Deng Ge touched the beard on his chin.
This year, Deng Ge seems to have taken the artistic route, growing a mustache and growing long hair.
It’s just that Deng Ge’s hair is at the awkward point of being neither too short nor too long, which is a bit off.
"There shouldn't be many artists in the company. Strictly speaking, there shouldn't be any." Jiang Yuan said after thinking for a while.
After all, he has now established his own label, and the contracts of his artists, such as Lu Qing and The Princess, are signed directly with the label.
"Wait a few years, maybe we can make a program about slow life."
Jiang Yuan actually thought about it and felt that by the time he started producing this kind of program, he should be in a semi-retired state.
"That's good too." Deng Ge just said this. Hearing that Jiang Yuan did have some ideas, he also had some expectations in his heart.
In the end, the two of them were unable to watch the entire first episode of "Travel in Style" together.
On the one hand, Jiang Yuan only brought a mobile phone, and the screen was indeed a little small, which made it a bit uncomfortable to look at.
On the other hand, it is also because the length of the first special is too honest, nearly two and a half hours, which is longer than many movies.
After watching for a while, it was almost time for dinner.
Considering that there would be an album meeting later, Jiang Yuan went to the company cafeteria with Deng Ge.
Although Xingyuan Entertainment has never had many artists, it is still fully equipped in all aspects.
When it was time for lunch, there were many employees eating in the cafeteria.
After seeing Jiang Yuan, they all greeted him warmly. Some of them looked quite familiar to Jiang Yuan.
After careful identification, I found that many of them were members of the bands or dance studios I was signed to.
Considering that some songs in the album may require choreography and other work, some vocal and dance teachers were also invited to the album meeting.
"It's usually quieter than it is now." Deng Ge said casually after he and Jiang Yuan ordered food at the window.
"The quality of the company cafeteria is indeed quite good." Jiang Yuan nodded and sighed.
On the day when "Flower Travel" was first broadcast, the number of online viewers reached a peak until dinner time in the evening.
Even though it was Friday, it was also a weekday, so many fans had to wait until this time to be free to watch the show.
At this point in time, some entries have already made it to the hot search list.
For example, the cut of the detective game, or Jiang Yuan's performance as a director, and even the little easter eggs about the filming of the movie revealed during the journey, these were all hot topics in the first episode.
Of course, the interactions between Jiang Yuan and Ye Xuanqi in the show were also edited by the program team, with the addition of some music and filters.
Many CP fans said that some clips looked like a romance movie and they were really addicted to it.
The premiere of the special was quite successful, and it was a big boost to the movie pre-sales that started at the same time.
However, the pre-sale results on the first day will not be counted until the settlement at 12 o'clock.
Before that, after dinner, Jiang Yuan also came to the company's conference room after a long absence. Several production teams had already arrived and were ready to start the album meeting discussion.