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Chapter 74 Understand?

The sound was very realistic, which made the audience even feel illusioned that it was really raining outside.

The lightning was lightning and the woman was trembling, wanting the scholar to accompany her overnight. She was pitiful. If the audience hadn't known that she was a female ghost "in advance", they would have believed it, and the scholar was attracted by her beauty and agreed ignorantly.

Just when everyone thought that the scholar would die, the plot had a turning point: a woman seduced the scholar and had a conversation, and was actually influenced by her and decided to let her live a life path.

The audience breathed a sigh of relief, but then the waves arose: the scholar saw the bell tied to the woman's feet and was curious and shaking it. The woman was shocked when she saw this: "Go away, go away!"

"Why did my wife get angry? The little student didn't mean it..."

"Go away! Grandma is coming!"

The plot was ups and downs, which made the audience unable to help but exclaim. In the extremely terrifying music, the body was weird, and the voice of the man and the woman "grandma" appeared.

The woman turned out to be controlled by her grandma and seduced her man for her grandma to eat. As a result, she fell in love with the scholar and fled with her sweetheart. The angry grandma chased and killed the two of them wildly.

Sometimes it turns into a group of bats, sometimes it turns into ferocious beasts. Such a powerful monster makes people sweat for the pair of miserable mandarin ducks. Many people are so nervous that they keep drinking water, and the waiter who observes the words and looks forward at the right time.

"Customer, the second cup is half price..."

In a private room on the second floor, Yu Wen Wen was drinking lemonade, watching his copycat version of "A Chinese Ghost Story", and chatting and laughing with his companions.

Those who can chat and laugh in the private room must always have some identities. The chief manager of Huangzhou, Sima Yang Ji, is one, the chief manager of Huangzhou, Yuwen Shiwu, is the second, and the other one, is Zheng Yi, Duke of Pei.

After sending his children back home, Yuwen Wen turned here, and the main creators of the shadow puppet show gathered together to celebrate the crowded "box offices". In order to avoid drinking and misleading things, they drank lemonade.

"Pei Gong's soundtrack is really impressed, and I really admire it."

"Where are, the instruments that the king came up with, and this creativity, really make Zheng admire him."

Zheng Yi sincerely praised Yuwen Wen, who was able to come up with such an idea, made ordinary shadow puppets so popular, not only caused a sensation in Xiyang City, but the box office really soared every day.

He couldn't even imagine what the situation would be if he performed in Chang'an, Yecheng or Luoyang.

"If there was no Pei Gong's soundtrack, this scene would be at least half inferior. Yang used water instead of wine and toasted Pei Gong with a glass."

Although Yang Ji was very despised Zheng Yi's character, the point on his face would never be seen. He was chatting and laughing with the other party. If someone who didn't know the truth met, he would think that these two people were in a nest of snakes and rats.

Yang Ji's ability to play around was already perfect. In Chang'an, he was able to communicate and socialize among the powerful. When he was young, he was not afraid of the powerful minister Yuwen Hu, and it was no problem to deal with a mere Zheng Yi.

Two thousand-year-old foxes and one old fox were praising each other, which was extremely stingy. Yuwen Shiwu, the little fox who had just debuted, was obviously much more immature. If Yuwen Wen hadn't been taking care of him from time to time, he wouldn't even have a "dialogue".

Yuwen Wen is one of the big bosses of this theater (theater), but the actual matter is under the responsibility of Yuwen Shiwu and his wife. In other words, Yuwen Wen actually transferred the so-called shares to his confidant Yuwen Shiwu, and he didn't take any money to his dividends at the end of the year.

With equal benefits and wealth together, Yuwen Wen brought everyone to make a lot of money. It is unreasonable not to bring his confidant. However, it is better to teach others how to fish than to teach others how to fish. The money-making path he planned to give to Yuwen Shiwu was the "entertainment industry".

In Yuwen Wen's opinion, the entertainment of this era is boring, and the military drama is an exception. In order to be innovative, the breakthrough he chose was shadow puppet drama.

The principle of shadow puppetry is very simple. Behind a translucent white cloth, light is used to shine on leather silhouettes. The artist manipulates the filmmaker while telling stories, and at the same time with various music, this is used as a performance.

Shadow puppets are said to have started in the Western Han Dynasty, but in this era, shadow puppets still seem immature, and Yuwen Wen decided to do it to the extreme, and if you don’t do it, you won’t do it, and you will make a splash.

Combining the elements of film and television dramas from later generations, using unique visual and auditory effects, and using mutated shadow puppets to shock the so-called rich people with great knowledge.

First of all, there are visual effects. Shadow puppets require the production of a large number of silhouettes, people, animals, buildings, objects, and even monsters. This is not a problem for Yuwen Wen. His knowledge is far away from this era.

There are many pigs and many pig skins in Huangzhou, so skin silhouettes don’t have to worry about raw materials. Many of the inspirations that Yuwen Wen drew from later film and television dramas can be expressed through shadow puppets.

Traditional shadow puppetry has a small screen, which limits the number of viewers. Yuwen Wen used the principle of small hole imaging and glass lens group to copy a simple amplifier and successfully realized the "big screen".

With the visual effect, the next step is hearing. If you want to expand the number of viewers watching shadow puppets at the same time, in addition to having a large screen, the sound effects must be kept up. This requires a suitable place to accommodate many people, and the audience in the back row can clearly hear the sound.

In the era without audio equipment, this is difficult to do. He can only optimize the layout of the theater from the acoustic aspect. He doesn't understand this industry very much, but it doesn't matter. Some people are experts.

Zheng Yi, the Duke of Pei Guo, has extremely high attainments in music. Of course, he does not understand modern acoustics, but his hearing is extremely keen. Yuwen Wen feels that if this person was born in modern times, he might not be able to hear the different effects of wind power, thermal power, nuclear power, and water power on sound quality through headphones.

With Zheng Yi's Golden Ear as a guide, the internal structure of the new theater has been optimized, and the clever layout of various sound sources can allow the audience to gain a very "realistic" auditory experience.

The theater was found, and next was the musical instrument. Yu Wenwen combined various musical instruments from later generations. After proposing the concept, Zheng Yi "revealed it". After careful debugging, he also reached the level of being able to perform.

With musical instruments, music problems have to be solved. Some music is "hum" by Yuwen Wen, and it is composed by Zheng Yi. The music of shadow puppets is completed by Yuwen Wen and Zheng Yi.

The problem of visual and auditory effects is gone. If the hardware problem is solved, the software problem must be solved - script.

One of the scripts is the famous "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which is a very familiar story by Yuwen Wen, but the detailed script was compiled by Yang Ji. In the late Ming Dynasty, the story of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms was mature, so there was no pressure from Yang Ji to compile it into a script.

Another script is "A Chinese Ghost Story", which is naturally adapted by Yuwen Wen based on classic films he has watched. It is impossible to produce realistic special effects these days, so he borrowed the performance form of shadow puppets to express various special effects as much as possible.

Demons and ghosts, as well as flying swords, transformations, fighting techniques, etc., can all be expressed in shadow puppets. The various brains of modern film and television dramas allow Yuwen Wen to "reappear" in this era.

With various sound effects, as well as the opening song of the old version of "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" that scares countless children to tears, it can be called a "special effect blockbuster" that is unrivaled in this era.

Producer and director Yu Wenwen, screenwriter Yang Ji, and vocal director Zheng Yi, the three of them form the "iron triangle" of the shadow puppet. After thinking about it for a long time, the script and the soundtrack were finalized, and relevant personnel were also required to train.

This matter requires a lot of energy and is naturally done by Zheng Yi, the "industry expert". The Duke of Pei Guo who desperately hopes to fade out of the court's vision is just when he has no official to do it and is bored. Yu Wen Wen has something to arrange for him, which is the most appropriate thing.

Of course, it is appropriate. There is a share of the box office. Even if Zheng Yi is concerned about the money, he has to do his job seriously. Producer Yu Wen Wen just allocates the money.

Isn’t the producer and director just responsible for spending a lot of money and then "directing" the actress in the room at night?

Yuwen Wen was not interested in wild flowers, but was very interested in enriching entertainment life. After the theater was done and the shadow puppetry team grew, he could also help his family to relieve boredom and create another characteristic industry for Xiyang City.

"good!!"

The audience burst into tears, and the powerful spell Yan Chixia was cheering for killing the old demon in Black Mountain, cheering for the scholar who found Xiaoqian's urn, and cheering for the demon one foot higher.

This scene opened their eyes. The dramas I had watched before were simply unable to compare with the shadow puppets here. Many people were excitedly discussing the plot, full of unsatisfactory appearance.

Horror, suspense, fighting, love, knight, and many elements are combined together, it is really hard to stop!

Yuwen Wen stood up and left, leaving Yang Ji to continue talking and laughing with Zheng Yi, while Yuwen Shiwu followed him out of the box. He noticed that the Lord of the Lang looked a little unkind, and he couldn't help but feel worried.

"The Lord..."

"I have said it many times, and I call it the King, this is not the royal palace."

"Master, are you not satisfied with your diet just now?"

"What do you think?"

"How could this popcorn be carefully crafted, small... Xiaguan has tried it, it is absolutely delicious!"

Yuwen Wen stopped, turned around and looked at his confidant with regret: "What did I say in the beginning? Hum?"

"The reed tubes of lemonade should be as thick as they are, the pastries should be dry as they are, the popcorn should be salty as they are, and the audience should be thirsty and thirsty after eating them. You should know that you don't need to say more about these things!"

"But the king, the popcorn is too salty or the pastry is too dry, and I feel so thirsty after eating it..."

"If you are thirsty, buy an extra cup of lemonade! Otherwise, how many more cups can you sell with the second cup at half price? Understand?"

"You! Where did that cleverness go? Open the door and do business, isn't it just to try different ways to make customers spend money?"

"If you sell more lemonade, the audience will drink more. If you are in a hurry, you have to go to the bathroom. If you miss the exciting plot, you may have to grit your teeth and buy a ticket after the show ends, and then eat popcorn and pastries that are dry and dry, and you have to buy lemonade."

"The theater business is good, and you have more money in your pocket, so you can also keep a few more outdoor rooms..."

"Mr. My husband! I don't have an outdoor room!"

"No? You haven't 'directed the show' in so many young and beautiful ladies in the theater?"

"Mr.! You can't be wronged by the young..."
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