Chapter 840 (1/2)
Simon returned to New York on September 5 and immediately got involved in the final preparations before the shooting of ”American Idol”.
This autumn reality show of ABC TV network in 1995 will be broadcast at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, September 26. It is divided into audition stage and competition stage with the interval of winter break. The autumn stage is the preliminary audition stage, and the competition will begin next spring.
Once ”American Idol” because of the British version of the successful precedent, the operation has been very mature, the broadcast has made a good start.
This time, the new version of ”American Idol” does not have the popularity foundation, but has the resources support of the whole westero system.
Since Simon came up with the idea of making this project, this version of ”American Idol” has been positioned as a large-scale linkage of the music industry of the whole westero system, in which Denise records, ABC TV network, igritt portal, tincobail company, etc. will participate.
Before the early stage of the project, tincobail won the exclusive naming right of ”American Idol” with a high price of 25 million US dollars. In addition, in the first season of the program cycle, tincobail will also send 100000 iplayer-10 digital music players through voting and lottery.
Based on the manufacturing cost of 100000 iplayer-10, plus the naming fee, tincobail will invest $50 million in the first quarter.
Not to mention the naming fee, 100000 iPlayer players worth US $50 million were publicized as prizes. In addition, the winner's cash award and record contract were announced at the end of July, which directly ignited public opinion.
The television department initially predicted that it might not receive too many applications in the first quarter. As a result, in less than a month, the number of applicants across the United States through the Internet and email channels exceeded 300000, and the production team had to urgently expand the number of audition departments by three times.
Due to the copyright of music, from the audition stage, the music used for performance is not selected according to personal preferences, but must use the music that has been incorporated into tincobail's broadcast stock. The project team randomly selected 10 pieces of music in the reply letter to the applicants, and indicated that the relevant music can be obtained from the broadcast website.
Through the early marketing of tincobail's 100000 sets of iPlayer gifts and the detailed arrangement that participants must use broadcast's stock music, recently, not only the music sales of broadcast's website have increased significantly, but also the iPlayer players whose production capacity has been climbing have become in short supply again.
Just these early market feedback, dincobail's $50 million investment is worth the money. Without the popularity of the British version, the new version of ”American Idol” starts no less than the fox version in Simon's memory.
What everyone needs to do now is to keep this good start and avoid going from high to low.
In order to ensure this to the greatest extent, Simon returned from Europe and re incarnated as a micro manager. He personally began to follow up all aspects, from audition process layout to lottery system development to lighting and machine seats in competition studio. He also specially spent one day arranging live rehearsals for four judges to further train the four judges who had already made sufficient preparations.
Under the bombardment of various reality shows in previous lives, no one knows better than Simon how the judges should perform to maximize the atmosphere of the scene.
Simon also set up a ”tit for tat” stunt for Xueer's big sister with another hero, David Kruger.
Refer to the passage of a ”32 concerts” in my memory.
Xueer is definitely a model worker in the American music circle. The old singer born in 1946 will often hold dozens of concerts every year even after more than ten years. Of course, she is not as big as Madonna's concerts, but she is not comparable to ordinary third rate singers.
The first season of ”American Idol” will probably end at the end of May next year.
Just as Cher plans to hold a series of concerts from June to September next year, Simon directly uses the ”32 concerts” passage, suggesting that whenever Cher and David Kruger have a dispute over whether a player is shortlisted or not, they should take ”I will hold 32 concerts next year” as their more professional and authoritative refutation.
Several live demonstrations, the effect is very good.
Xueer is also willing to accept this setting. After all, it will definitely increase her attention in next year's concert.
It doesn't matter whether it's 32 concerts or not.
According to Xueer's workaholic level, this number is likely to be only a few more in the next three months of summer vacation. The singer has done hundreds of concerts a year at her peak. In the bribery scandal of the Golden Globe Awards in those years, it was no accident that the shortlisted presented tickets for the Golden Globe Award judge Cher's concert, because it was too easy to buy.
If Xueer's number of concerts next year is more than 32, it's just right. The second season's episodes are all available.
David Kruger can bitterly accuse Cher of holding 64 concerts when she said it was 32 concerts, and so on.In addition, the choice of competition songs is full of tricks.
Once ”the voice of China”, a ”high song”, the atmosphere of the scene burned directly, and the audience rating soared. If we change to the lyrical and low euphemistic ”yijianmei”, we will definitely not try to achieve this effect.
These are actually the last stanzas.
The key is the draft itself.
Simon's positioning of ”American Idol” is a reality show. The audience thinks what they see is ”true” and the key is ”show”. In fact, it is performance. However, according to previous experience, music reality shows usually produce some singers with fairly good reputation in the first few seasons, and he also hopes to achieve this goal, so as to promote the development of Denise records.
From the selection of judges, Simon began this arrangement.
Xueer, the eldest sister, is an artist of danielis records. Pushing her out can once again boost her popularity and stimulate the sales of this old singer's records.
David Kruger is the producer of backstreet boy's first popular record. He is good at making pop music records. He can select the music talents dannilis needs from a large number of players, and he is a popular pop music talent.
The other two judges, Jay-Z and Jennifer Lopez, joined the judges as supporting roles. Simon's original goal was to cultivate them as the potential music seeds of Denise records.
Jay-Z's achievements need not be mentioned.
As for Jennifer Lopez, although Simon can't figure out how the Latin Diva has maintained her popularity for so many years, since she has such potential, giving her resources will surely bring her desired return.