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"Try the chorus again."

"No need for the vibrato, make it more natural."

"The first half is about building up emotions."

"No need to deliberately create a bitter feeling in the chorus part."

"The drum beats here can be a little stronger. It should give a feeling of emotional release and burst, but not the hysterical kind of burst. Tame your voice a bit, just like you sang the first time."

"..."

After the year-end holidays, people started to work again.

Mid-month.

A recording studio in Starlight Entertainment.

Lin Yuan began to guide Sun Yaohuo in recording the song "Farewell Kiss".

As Sun Yaohuo had practiced beforehand, the recording went smoothly. Lin Yuan just made minor corrections in a few places.

Unlike before.

When Lin Yuan recorded songs before, composition and arrangement were basically entirely based on the original design.

But now.

Lin Yuan has begun to learn to adjust the composition and arrangement based on the singers’ characteristics when recording songs.

Not to say that the original version is not good.

The main reason is that the music of the original song is entirely designed around the original singer.

For example, the song "Farewell Kiss" has the characteristics of popular music from a certain era in Xiangjiang on Earth, and some small singing designs are specifically arranged for Jacky Cheung.

After all, the singer is Jacky Cheung.

However, Sun Yaohuo is not Jacky Cheung, so Lin Yuan also began to try to design some small segments of arrangement for Sun Yaohuo.

These changes will not be too big.

Ordinary listeners may not even notice the difference, but they are a true test of Lin Yuan’s ability.

Fortunately, Lin Yuan has been studying composition and has started to learn about arrangements. After all, music also needs to keep up with the times.

After a half-day of hard work, the Sun Yaohuo version of "Farewell Kiss" was finally recorded. Technical processing needs to be done later.

Once all this is completed, it can be promoted.

In the afternoon.

Lin Yuan made another trip to the shooting location of the TV drama "Journey to the West".

The shooting schedule here is not bad. According to the director, the first season can probably be finished by the end of the month, but the post-production also needs some work—

Yes.

Lin Yuan doesn’t plan to shoot all of "Journey to the West" at once.

This is a large project; shooting in several seasons would be better.

For the first season of "Journey to the West", Lin Yuan has written a script that starts with the birth of the Monkey King and ends with the completion of Tang Monk’s disciples.

That is to say, the content of the first season can end with the addition of Monk Sha to the pilgrim team.

In this, the focus of the story is on the part where Sun Wukong causes havoc in Heaven.

Almost all of the funding for the first season was centered on this part. This is the bomb of the beginning plot of the Journey to the West. All kinds of climax special effects scenes must be made very exciting!

It is worth mentioning that the Lin Yuan version of the "Journey to the West" TV drama is different from the CCTV version on Earth.

The CCTV version of "Journey to the West" has made many adaptations to the original.

The Lin Yuan version of "Journey to the West", although it also has some adaptations to the original, does not necessarily follow the same direction as the CCTV version.

Of course.

Overall, it should still follow the base tone of the CCTV version, and it cannot be filmed too dark, even if some parts of the Journey to the West’s story are indeed quite dark.

If the scope was opened up for filming, the TV drama might even focus on several scenes of demons eating humans.

Lin Yuan can’t do this.

If he wants to make Journey to the West a TV drama suitable for all ages, he can’t take this path.

If the style is so bloody, children won’t be able to watch it...

The main focus should be on the plot and special effects.

When the CCTV version of Journey to the West was filmed, Earth’s special effects level was not very high, especially in the technologically limited Celestial Dynasty.

So the style of the battles can be described as fantasy, but the fights still have a strong sense of martial arts.

In Blue Star, there is no need to worry about special effects.

The version of Journey to the West that Lin Yuan is shooting in Blue Star will undoubtedly have the most authentic style.

Lin Yuan and the company have given a generous budget for the investment!

If the investment amount that Starlight put into the Journey to the West TV drama is revealed, it would definitely shock the industry!

What Fiery Golden Eyes...?

They’d have to literally be on fire for that to work!

For divine duels, there has to be some natural spectacle. Otherwise, it would be a disservice to Blue Star’s current special effects technology!

For this, Lin Yuan is going all out.

He must be willing to spend money, not leaving any regrets behind!

Actually, investing too much money in a TV series is not really worth it.

After all, the profits from a TV show have a limit.

The money you can make from special effects done to 80% versus 90%, might not be much different.

This is the main reason why investments in TV series are never higher than in movies of the same level.

Because the cap for movies is much higher.

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Now, Lin Yuan is directly treating the TV series like a big-budget movie.

As long as it can become popular, even if this TV series ends up operating at a loss, Lin Yuan is willing to absorb it.

That’s right.

Lin Yuan is fully prepared to lose money.

Because he is confident that he can earn back all the lost money from the subsequent development of Journey to the West stories!

The premise is that the TV series on Journey to the West needs to become well-known and influential first!

His approach is simple:

Doesn’t Earth have the Marvel Universe?

Then he can totally create a Journey to the West Universe on Blue Star!

In the future, Lin Yuan can revolve around the Journey to the West Universe to make movies and TV shows about characters from the Journey to the West.

Something akin to A Chinese Odyssey for instance.

Or even The Lotus Lantern or something.

Marvel has Spiderman, Iron Man, Thor...

When they unite, there’s the Avengers; separately, individual characters have their own TV series and films.

In Journey to the West, there’s Sun Wukong, Yang Jian, Nezha, and other characters.

When they come together there’s Journey to the West, while they can also have independent TV series when alone.

As if any of them didn’t have their own individual storyline.

If Journey to the West is truly developed well, even characters like Marshal Canopy could have TV series like Sunny Piggy and still become a hit due to the popularity of Journey to the West.

There’s no need to worry that these type of works will conflict with the plotline of Journey to the West TV series.

Earth’s Marvel and the scriptwriters of X-Men have already taught everyone how to play with this set up:

When in doubt, rely on quantum mechanics; when explanations fail, time travel; when creativity falls short, parallel universes; when style is inconsistent, virtual reality; when color combinations are an issue, cyberpunk; when the graphics are old, go for vintage; when clarity is lacking, tribute to Cthulhu!

In conclusion:

Lin Yuan has big plans for Journey to the West.

As for scriptwriting, Lin Yuan isn’t rigid about it.

If the System has it, he can leverage the System;

If the System doesn’t, he can find his own scriptwriters for modifications.

As long as he provides the ideas, finding a few talented scriptwriters on Blue Star to polish and fill out his ideas isn’t difficult.

For instance...

If Lin Yuan wants to film a derivative work about Yang Jian, he could exchange it for the script of The Lotus Lantern TV series. @@novelbin@@

If he wants to get fancier, he’ll just bring out Everlasting Regret.

The combination of the two would produce an absolutely astonishing effect.

If he wants to go bigger, Lin Yuan dares to film The Legend of Wukong for you to see.

Okay then.

These are some of Lin Yuan’s immature ideas. He’ll have to figure out exactly how to implement them in the future.

If the TV series fails, it would be an ominous beginning, making the future development of Journey to the West extremely difficult.

This is also why Lin Yuan hasn’t gone to the sets of the other two movies today and instead went to the Journey to the West set.

This TV series is currently the project he values most!

This determines whether he can successfully develop his grand plan of the entire Journey to the West world in the future!

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ps: There should be quite a few Journey to the West works in the future film and television sections. There have been some considerations to creatively reinterpret or even originally create some scripts for certain characters. However, considering the immersion aspect, this entertainment novel will try to minimize original creation, unless Polluted White believes that a piece is worth writing.