When both sides have intentions to cooperate, the negotiations went smoothly.

Lin Zixuan won Meng Xiaodong the price of recording a record of 500 yuan. This price is only equivalent to the price of a famous Peking Opera actor, but it is considered top for singers.

Moreover, when the record sales exceed 10,000, Lin Zixuan will receive a commission of one cent per record.

If the sales volume exceeds 30,000 copies, dividends should be paid according to proportion on the basis of the commission.

If the sales volume exceeds 50,000...

Zhang Changfu just smiled at this, and he had a deep understanding of the record market.

In this era, it would be good if the sales volume of ordinary records exceeded 10,000.

Even if the record "Night Shanghai" finally sold 20,000, it was because it was the pioneering work of popular songs, with excellent quality and popularity.

The future pop song records will probably not have such high sales.

As for 50,000 pictures, he can only laugh, unless Lin Zixuan produces a more classic song than "Night Shanghai".

However, Zhang Changfu did not estimate the rapid development of the recording industry in the future.

With the popularity of phonographs, it is not difficult to sell more than 30,000 records in a few years. If there were no small record company imitation, it would be possible even if it exceeded 50,000.

Moreover, Lin Zixuan is very confident in his songs. In order to establish Meng Xiaodong's status as a top-notch singer, he carefully selected four songs.

In order to promote singers, he is also quite hard-working.

Lin Zixuan analyzed the gains and losses of the first record.

Among them, "Night Shanghai" and "Night Come to Fragrance" are the most popular, followed by "Jasmine Flower", and "Sweet Honey" is the last.

This is probably related to the level of music in this era and the audience's acceptance ability.

In this era, listeners are used to listening to opera, and the rhythm of opera is slower, so you cannot start with fast-paced music as soon as you come. If someone plays rock during the Republic of China period, they will be regarded as a psychopath.

This is the limitation of the times, and if you want to change, you can only proceed step by step.

Moreover, the songs must conform to the characteristics of the times so that they can be quickly accepted. "Night Shanghai" is the best example.

Lin Zixuan asked his sister Lin Xiaoling to comment on these four songs and asked why she didn't like "Sweet Honey".

"It's not that I don't like it, I just think the song is a bit strange." Lin Xiaoling said without objection.

This "weird" is a very telling problem. Lin Xiaoling doesn't understand music, but she still thinks the music is weird, which shows that this song is inconsistent with this era.

This is the judging standard for ordinary listeners and also the criterion for Lin Zixuan to choose songs.

The four songs he took out this time are "When will you come again", "The moon sends lovesickness thousands of miles away", "Rose, I love you" and "The moon represents my heart".

"When will you come again" is sung by Zhou Xuan. Both the tunes and lyrics are the style of this era, which is absolutely classic.

"The Bright Moon Sends Love in Thousand Miles" was sung by Wu Yingyin, a singer who was a popular singer in the 1940s.

When the lyricist first asked her to sing this song, she refused because she "was not beautiful in tune". As a result, she became famous after singing it and became a classic song and was covered by many singers in later generations.

The singer of the song "Rose I Love You" is Yao Li. The melody of the song is relaxed and bright, unrestrained and uplifting, cleverly integrating urban sentiments and national tones.

In 1951, this song was covered by American singer Frankie Lane. It was once ranked among the top three in the American music pop rankings and has been sung abroad to this day.

"The Moon Represents My Heart" is a song sung by Chen Fenlan in 1972. It was later covered by Deng Lijun and became popular in the Chinese world.

Lin Zixuan wants to try it out and see if this song can be accepted by listeners of this era.

He cannot just take care of whether the songs are in line with this era, but also gradually cultivate the audience's interest.

In subtle influence, the audience will get used to it.

After all, he doesn’t remember many old songs, so he can only follow the 1980s if he plagiarizes him. Deng Lijun’s songs will be the focus of his plagiarism.

After choosing the song, you can record the record just by waiting until Meng Xiaodong's tour is over.

After reaching a cooperation agreement with EDA, Lin Zixuan and Zhang Changfu talked about buying movie shooting equipment.

Zhang Changfu was very interested in this. As a comprador, he could withdraw commissions as long as the goods were sold.

The filming equipment is easy to talk about, but Lin Zixuan focuses on the news of audio movies. By shooting "Shanghai Holiday", he became tired of silent movies.

Zhang Changfu didn't know much about technical matters, so he found a French technician.

French technicians have a deep understanding of the news about films, and he told Lin Zixuan about the origin of audio films.

Audio videos are not new.

At the beginning, the cinema asked the voice actors to stand behind the scenes and talked when the film was screened. This naive method was eliminated after a while.

Later, music accompaniment was performed live during the movie screening. This method is more popular and has been used to this day.

But this is not a real audio movie.

In fact, in 1910, Edison invented audio movies, and he invented a movie machine that connects the sound of a phonograph with the images on the movie camera.

Edison's contribution lies in his recording of sounds and images at the same time at the same time. Later, someone developed the techniques of "wax disc pronunciation" and "on-chip pronunciation".

The pronunciation of the wax disc is to burn the sound on the record and play it at the same time as the video.

The pronunciation on the film is to use two negatives with different photosensitive properties during shooting, one for catching the picture and the other for recording sound traces.

After a series of process processing, the sound trace and the picture are printed on a regular film. When the film is copied and displayed, the projector is equipped with a sound return device, which can restore the sound trace to sound while reflecting the picture.

However, this invention still has flaws.

First of all, the sounds made in the movie have a strong nasal sound when screened in the Grand Theater.

Secondly, the synchronization method of sound and picture is still incomplete, and actors must try to combine the movements of their lips with the sound of the phonograph record "reproduced".

Finally, there is also the issue of technical patents.

Audio movies need to use the pronunciation technology of phonographs, and a large electrical company that manufactures radio equipment has become the occupant of the patent rights of audio movie machines.

If a film company wants to shoot audio films, it must pay a patent fee. In the era when silent films are booming, no film company is willing to pay this injustice.

Anyway, shooting silent films can make money, so why bother taking the risk to shoot audio movies?

This is the reason why audio films have not been successful for so many years, and no one is willing to shoot and promote them.

Later, audio movies were almost abandoned.

In 1914, a video of the pronunciation of wax discs was screened in Shanghai Victoria Theater. Because it was experimental, it did not attract much attention.

Lin Zixuan was very happy after hearing this. He asked Baida Company to buy him a set of audio movie shooting machines.

Since foreign film factories are unwilling to shoot audio movies, I do!

From now on, the first real audio film was produced in China, and it could still leave a strong mark in the history of world cinema.
Chapter completed!