Tokyo Literary Godfather

The new AD's job on the set is mainly to do odd jobs.

AD means director's assistant, but in fact it can be anyone's assistant and is the hardest worker bee on the crew.

Kei Fujiwara is helping executive director Taro Nishimura train passerby actors. Passerby actors are also group actors. However, unlike the Hengdian model, these actors are technically employees of the TV station and are paid. Most of them are in the TV station's acting training class. After simple training.

Kei Fujiwara taught the passers-by actors how to move and cooperated with the leading actors in various performances. He would warn the passers-by actors five times and three times when they encountered those passers-by who were particularly paddling and wanted to stand out.

It is also true that this group of passerby actors did not make any mistakes during the filming process. If this group of people has problems, he and Nishimura Taro will be the first to take the lead.

"Director Nishimura, this is the list of passers-by actors I selected. You can take a look." Fujiwara Kei went to find Taro Nishimura, but found that the man was standing against the wall, his head lowered and he didn't know what he was thinking about.

"Supervisor Nishimura?" He called again, but Taro Nishimura still didn't respond. Kei Fujiwara was stunned for a moment, and when he looked carefully, he realized that the man had fallen asleep standing up.

Kei Fujiwara hesitated for a moment, stretched out his hand to push him, and Taro Nishimura suddenly woke up: "Are you off work?"

Fujiwara Kei reluctantly handed over the cast list and whispered: "Director Nishimura, do you want me to buy you a cup of coffee?"

Taro Nishimura sighed and shook his head: "I can't drink it, I'm allergic to caffeine."

Looking at Nishimura Taro's dark circles under his eyes, Fujiwara Kei could only express sympathy in his heart.

Time passes day by day, and "In the Name of Love" has also been put into the seventh episode. The producer still has two episodes of the film in hand.

This TV series has a total of twelve episodes, with one episode released every week. The production model of Japanese and Korean dramas is similar. They choose the mode of filming and broadcasting, and adjust the content from time to time based on audience feedback. Sometimes the audience particularly likes or dislikes a supporting character, and the screenwriter will increase or decrease his role as appropriate.

It is precisely because of this mode that it adds a lot of uncertainty to shooting. The second female lead, who was supposed to run through the entire script, turned out to be so annoying to the audience that it was not unheard of for her to be taken offline in the third episode.

The pressure on the creative staff is extremely high. Both the producer and the director are like powder keg on the set, almost exploding at the first moment.

At noon, it was lunch time for the crew, and the meal was quite sumptuous. Perhaps because filming required a lot of calories, most of the meals prepared for the creative team were fried.

Kei Fujiwara was eating omelette rice and fried shrimp when the BP machine rang again. Kei Fujiwara picked it up and saw that it was an unknown number.

…

"Hello, who are you?"

"Hello, this is Asakawa Bookstore."

Kei Fujiwara frowned. This was a publishing house, and Kei Fujiwara had submitted articles there before. He waited for the editor there for a long time. After the final edit, he just asked him to make a copy of the work and then ran to the nightclub. Among all the publishing houses to which he had submitted his manuscript, this publishing house gave him the worst impression.

"I have an impression. What can I do?"

"Well, it's like this. You have submitted a novel to our club before, a novel called "White Night Journey", do you have any impression? We think this novel is very interesting and we are willing to publish it in our magazine "Call of the Wild" I would like to invite you to come to our publishing house to discuss it in detail."

"Sorry, I won't consider it anymore." Fujiwara Kei said.

"Uh, may I ask why? Do you have any concerns?" the person on the other side of the phone said, but then a second voice came out of the phone, "Give me the phone and I'll talk to him."

"Hello, I am the editor-in-chief of Asakawa Shoten. I personally reviewed your manuscript. I think it is very interesting and would like to publish it in our magazine. As for the manuscript fee, we are willing to pay 5,000 yen per page, and One-time payment for three chapters of manuscript materials..."

The manuscript fee of five thousand yen per page is already a very high price for a newcomer, at least higher than what Spring and Autumn Society pays.

But now, it is impossible to change the court, the contract has been signed.

Fujiwara Kei smiled and said: "Sorry, my novel has already been signed with Spring and Autumn Society. Even if you give me 10,000 yuan, there is nothing I can do."

The other end of the phone was silent for several seconds, then sighed, "Well, I'm really sorry to bother you. We will destroy the manuscript."

After hanging up the phone, the editor-in-chief of Asakawa Bookstore looked at the editor standing behind him angrily.

The editor was a little uneasy and kept looking at the toes of his shoes, feeling that he had suffered an unreasonable disaster.

I have no memory of when I received this manuscript called "White Night Journey". I only remember that I photocopied it and put it aside. It seems that I have never read it.

But by some unknown coincidence, the manuscript was seen by the editor. After reading four chapters and the outline, the editor asked to contact the author. His expression was even a little excited, and he even blamed his editor for why such a good manuscript was not delivered. Serial meeting coming up.

The editor-in-chief stared at the fat editor for a long time, and suddenly sighed: "Forget it, it's okay. Things like fate are gone if they are gone. There is no point in complaining. You can go back to work."

The editor finally breathed a sigh of relief, bowed to the minister, and quickly returned to his desk.

It's just that I lost a manuscript. Is this the case, Minister? What a fuss!

The new issue of "Qiankun Chunqiu" has finally been released!

The Spring and Autumn Society sent the sample book immediately, and Kei Fujiwara opened the catalog first, found the page where "White Night Journey" was located, and then turned to that page.

The magazine was considerate and even drew beautiful illustrations for his novel. It was the reflection of a little boy holding a little girl's hand under a streetlight. It looked poignant and could be regarded as a hint to the readers about the plot.

Kei Fujiwara took out the "Reader Opinion Survey Form" from the magazine and stared at the form for a long time.

Every "Qiankun Chunqiu" magazine will have a return visit form like this. Some readers will fill in the form, write down their favorite works, and then send it back to the magazine.

This form of return visit form is learned from comic magazines, in order to be able to grasp the readers' real reaction to the novel in the first place.

The fate of most works is determined by these feedback forms.

The data of the feedback form is divided into three rounds. The first round is "quick report", which refers to the results of the first 100 interview forms received after the publication of the magazine.

The second round is "small positive", that is, about a week later, from all the interview forms received, 500 are selected for statistics.

The third round is the "full statistics". After the next issue of the magazine is released, all interview forms of the previous issue of the magazine will be counted. The survey results at this time are the most accurate, but they are also beyond the timeliness.

So in the eyes of the editorial department, Xiaozheng's results are the most important.

It's almost tomorrow, and the results of the quick report should come out, I don't know what the result will be...

Fujiwara Kei thought.