In January 2001, "Young Bao Qingtian" officially premiered on Yanjing Satellite TV.

Immediately, it quickly attracted the attention of the audience with its suspenseful and climaxing story, the outstanding acting skills of the actors, and the meticulous production of the behind-the-scenes team.

The ratings are as high as 10%, not only ranking first in the same period, but also ranking first in the whole year. The results are quite amazing!

Such high ratings also benefited all the leading actors in the drama a lot.

As the protagonist, Xiang Nan is brave, wise, generous and upright, and values ​​​​love and justice, so he is deeply loved by the audience; the second male lead, Ren Chan, is handsome, talented, and infatuated, and also wins the love of the audience; the female lead is also loved by the audience Li Bingbing has a pretty face, dares to love and hate, and has a clear distinction between right and wrong, which also makes the audience love her endlessly.

Others like Shi Xiaolong who plays Zhan Zhao, Liu Yijun who plays Pang Feiyan, He Zhonghua who plays Shen Liang, etc. have also seen their popularity increase to varying degrees.

The success of "Young Man Bao Qingtian" also caused Xiang Nan's film appointments to increase several times, and even his salary doubled compared to before.

However, Xiang Nan's principle in taking on roles is to avoid overdoing it. Faced with an influx of film offers, after some screening, he finally chose the role of the young Kangxi in "Kangxi Dynasty".

Xiang Nan had watched this TV series back then and was deeply impressed. He knew that it was a huge series that not only had extremely high ratings, but also caused great repercussions in society.

Although the young Kangxi only appeared in less than ten episodes, he was still impressive. So even if it was just a supporting role and the pay was not high, Xiang Nan was still happy to take it.

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In February, Xiang Nan's fourth album "Love in BC" was officially recorded.

During the filming of the MV, Xiang Nan chose Tang Wei as the heroine of his MV.

Firstly, Tang Wei's looks are good enough to be a heroine; secondly, she is now signed to the Youth Youth banner and is the second artist signed by the studio.

Xiang Nan hopes to make her famous, and then he can become a vicious capitalist who exploits labor.

Tang Wei was extremely surprised when she learned that Xiang Nan had chosen her to star in the music video. But she knew that every heroine in the music video he collaborated with was now popular.

Zhang Jingchu quickly became popular with her role as Zhang Daxue in "The Happy Life of Zhang Damin." Later, she took on roles in "The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom", "Kangxi Private Interview 2", "The Heroic Woman" and so on. She is very popular. It's getting higher and higher.

After Zeng Lai collaborated with Xiang Nan in the music video, he quickly attracted the attention of the film and television industry, and subsequently participated in "Love Between Humans and Ghosts", "Legend of Lu Buwei", "Complete Marriage Manual", etc. He is no longer transparent in the entertainment industry people.

After Li Xiaoran collaborated with Xiang Nan in the music video, he soon joined the cast of "The Sword of the Third Young Master", and then took on filming roles in dramas such as "White Trap" and "The Troubled Times", and his career also saw a significant turn for the better.

Nowadays, Xiang Nan's popularity is getting higher and higher, and his new album is attracting more and more attention. Whoever can star in the heroine of his music video is also getting more and more attention from the entertainment industry.

It is no exaggeration to say that half of the female artists in the entertainment industry are eager to collaborate with him.

But I didn't expect that such a big piece of cake would fall into my mouth like this. It was really a pie in the sky.

Therefore, Tang Wei was very grateful for this.

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For the filming of the music video for "Love in BC", Xiang Nan did not hire a director, but planned to direct it himself.

Firstly, he had seen this MV before and it still had an impression on him, so he was going to imitate it; secondly, he also wanted to use it to train himself and accumulate some experience as a director.

Xiang Nan has watched many popular film and television dramas of later generations, and many of them are still impressive. Instead of writing scripts and selling them to other production companies, it is better to invest and try them out yourself.

If you want to invest in the production of film and television dramas, you must be familiar with every aspect of it. Otherwise, you may be deceived and bankrupt at any time.

In the entertainment industry, there are always examples of rich and wealthy people who have been deceived out of their money by shrewd producers. They can just set up a scene and hire a big star, and they dare to ask for millions or tens of millions.

If you don't know the details inside, you will really be tricked and have to help others count money. So Xiang Nan must learn to explore and accumulate experience now to avoid being tricked later.

Since Xiang Nan is directing it himself, the progress is naturally much slower.

With an experienced director, the filming might have been completed in three or two days, but he had no relevant experience and could only explore slowly, so it took seven days to complete.

Not only was the filming finished, but there were also editing, color grading, and soundtracking. There were so many processes that were scary. It took nearly half a month to finally complete the four-and-a-half-minute MV. It can be said to be time-consuming and labor-intensive!

But to be honest, by shooting this MV, Xiang Nan has a preliminary understanding of each process. Next, if he slowly learns and accumulates experience, he may become a famous director in the future.

You know, many directors in the world started their careers by making music videos. For example, David Fincher and Michael Bay in Hollywood; Tetsuya Nakajima in Japan (who filmed "The Life of the Disliked Matsuko");

Zhang Guoli, Zhang Yibai, Zhang Yuan, etc. from the Mainland.

With Xiang Nan's extremely high IQ, rigorous style, and abundant knowledge, I believe it is very possible.

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The music video for "Love in BC" was quickly played on major TV stations and immediately attracted the attention of the audience.

First of all, this MV is a rare MV with a fantasy color. The mysterious ancient Babylonian civilization, the ancient Code of Hammurabi, the distant Mesopotamian plains... the audience can't help but yearn for it.

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Secondly, many mainland audiences are exposed to R&B songs for the first time. To be honest, the first reaction of many adult audiences is discomfort.

The weird melody, strange beats, and unintelligible lyrics made the audience accustomed to traditional pop music frown.

In contrast, when the young audience heard this song, they all shouted that it was fun and felt it was very novel and interesting.

In order to better promote the album "Love in BC" and let more people accept his transformation, Xiang Nan specially asked Su Mang to write articles for major entertainment magazines, introducing the origin, development, and current popularity of R&B music genre.

The prosperity of European and American countries.

Let them know that this kind of song is very fashionable, very popular and very popular, and all the big-name foreign singers sing this kind of song.

This kind of publicity is still very effective. Many readers were originally not interested in r&b, but after reading these reports, they can't help but become interested.

Therefore, the subsequent record order volume is quite good. What makes Song Bing particularly happy is that after the album was sold to Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and other places through Warner's sales channels, it also achieved good sales. This is

This has never happened before.

Because before this, listeners in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and other places thought that mainland pop music was terrible.

For example, in "Brother Xinzha Chasing Girls" starring Wu Qilong, Takeshi Kaneshiro, and Yang Caini, there is a funny plot in which a mainland girl played by Yang Caini sings "Tracker's Love" at karaoke.
Chapter completed!