The perfect future of rebirth

It is generally believed that the earliest sitcoms appeared in the golden age of American broadcasting, that is, from the end of World War I to the end of World War II, and are now widely accepted around the world.In many countries, sitcoms are among the most popular TV shows.

In the classification of TV series in the United States, sitcoms, soap operas and episodic series all belong to the category of TV series.

While the latter two often interpenetrate, there is a big difference between sitcoms and the latter two.

In addition to sitcoms, some other dramas with mostly funny elements, although they are the same as melodramas in terms of content, presentation, and duration, are usually classified as comedies when participating in TV award competitions.

The division of sitcoms and other TV dramas in other countries is different from that in the United States. Many people in China think that sitcoms belong to the category of soap operas.

Huaxia's first sitcom is "I Love My Family". Although "The Story of the Editorial Department" actually has the meaning of a sitcom, it is still a series of TV series for publicity.

There are various scenes in sitcoms, but the shooting techniques are almost the same. There are only three main ones: live audiences and live shooting.No live audience, filmed live, some sitcoms have recorded laughs added in post.and location shooting.

With a live audience, sitcoms filmed live usually have a central scene where most of the action takes place.There are solid walls on three sides of the scene, and the camera and audience are outside the fourth open wall, as in The Simpsons.

Other sitcoms, like "Friends" and "The Big Bang Theory," have ongoing storylines.

As is common with family sitcoms, families often add members at some point in the series, but babies and toddlers are out of control, so it's not good for the shoot other than being cute.Therefore, most of the speaking children in sitcoms are four or five years old and above.

Most contemporary sitcoms are filmed with multiple cameras in fixed studios, often with a live audience to participate in the recording of laughter.After the clips were made, they aired days or weeks later.

There are also some sitcoms that don't have pre-recorded canned laughter, such as "The Growth of an Intern" broadcast in the United States.

"Sex and the City" also had a sitcom taste at first, but it didn't choose this path later.

Most American sitcoms are a full 10 minutes in length, including commercials, which is about 22 minutes in actual length.

The situation in other countries is not the same as in the United States.American sitcom screenwriters usually have a round table meeting with a large group of people to write and discuss the plot, while British sitcom screenwriters usually have two or simply one person.

For Huaxia, um, it is basically a group of people discussing together.

Although the shooting techniques of sitcoms are becoming more and more perfect, and the plots, jokes, and performances are more mature and more in line with the tastes of the public, its essence has never changed.

At the end of the day, a sitcom is a 10-minute show in which actors entertain audiences in familiar situations.Throughout the history of television development, we can see that different sitcoms have many similarities, and perhaps this is where the vitality of sitcoms lies.

But at the same time, this also makes the development of sitcoms have their limitations.

Once the audience's aesthetic fatigue occurs and the jokes no longer impress the audience, sitcoms will go downhill.

This is why Jiang Wen doesn't agree with Zhao Fusheng's investment in this drama.

Because in Lao Jiang's view, the sitcom market in China has been impacted by TV dramas and there is almost no room for development.

"Are you that unconfident?"

Looking at Jiang Wen, Zhao Fusheng smiled and asked.

"It's not that I don't have confidence."

Jiang Wen shook his head when he heard Zhao Fusheng's words: "Look carefully. In recent years, it's not that no one in China has invested in making sitcoms. As a result, they all lost money in a mess, and most of them couldn't even get back their investment."

This is the truth. The film and television investment industry is not as beautiful as it appears on the surface. Although Hollywood is a bottomless pool, the same is true for China.

It may be possible to invest 1000 million in it without even seeing a splash.

More importantly, even, you don't even know how the 1000 million disappeared.

"I understand your idea."

Zhao Fusheng smiled, and said to Jiang Wen: "However, if you read this script, you will understand why I have to try it."

Jiang Wen was startled, and looked at Zhao Fusheng in surprise.

In this case, if Zhao Fusheng still insists on his own opinion, it seems that there should be something in this script.

Thinking of this, Jiang Wen picked up the script and began to read it.

Zhao Fusheng was not in a hurry, he waved his hand and asked the driver to start the car and drive towards Jiang Wen's house.

The speed of the car was not too fast, and it took less than an hour to reach Jiang Wen's house.

After getting out of the car, Zhao Fusheng glanced at Jiang Wen: "How about it, do you understand?"

"interesting."

Jiang Wen closed the script, got out of the car, and said to Zhao Fusheng: "I understand your thoughts a little bit."

Now he really understands Zhao Fusheng's thoughts. Although this drama is no different from other sitcoms, the key problem is that it meets the requirements of Chinese people.

Purely funny, without so much preaching, even if it is reasonable, try not to teach people so bluntly.Coupled with the fact that the background of the story is placed in the category of martial arts, Chinese audiences with a martial arts complex will definitely love it.

To be more precise, this film cleverly captures what the audience needs today. If it is filmed, there will really be a market.

"Try it."

Zhao Fusheng smiled, and said to Jiang Wen: "Including the script, the investment does not exceed 2000 million. I think the cost can be recovered no matter what, isn't it?"

"That's true."

Jiang Wen nodded: "The investment is not high, and you don't need any big-name actors, but you can test the waters."

If the investment exceeds 5000 million, Jiang Wen will definitely stop Zhao Fusheng, but if the investment is less than 2000 million, Jiang Wen thinks he can give it a try.

Anyway, as Zhao Fusheng himself said, with an investment of less than 2000 million, even if it is sold to some TV stations for the second and third rounds, the cost can be recovered.

This point, both Zhao Fusheng and Jiang Wen knew it well.

"Let's go, call Ye Jing later and talk about this matter."

Zhao Fusheng patted Jiang Wen on the shoulder and told him.

Now that Jiang Wen has started to get involved in the management of future film and television, since he took over this matter, he is naturally responsible for it.

And Ye Jing is the person in charge of Future Film and Television, so he also needs to know about this plan.

"What's the point of turning back?"

Jiang Wen waved his hand: "It's better to hit the sun than to choose a date. I'll call him right now, so we can have dinner together in the evening."

He said with a smile, "I think Feihong can play the role of Shopkeeper Tong."

what?

This time, it was Zhao Fusheng's turn to be in a daze.

All along, he never thought of letting an actor other than Yan Ni play Tong Xiangyu.

But Jiang Wen's proposal seemed to open the door to a new world for him.